I can not think of a more serious case of
policy failure with such dire long - term consequences, not just for the environment and Australian's way of life but for the economy in a global business environment that is being so rapidly transformed.
Writing in the Observer, Mr Hunt labels Mr Cameron «the frat - boy prime minister who spills confidences about the Queen and covers up
policy failure with personal attacks».
Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions
with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements
with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements
with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts
with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology
failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships
with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance
with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government
policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
He stopped publicly criticizing the central bank while in office, this person said, but was back at it in 2005,
with his book, «Successes and
Failures of Fiscal and Monetary
Policy.»
But people familiar
with the deliberations say Williams» monetary
policy expertise became more important, because of the
failure of the White House to nominate a vice chairman for the Federal Reserve.
The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its
failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly
with far too little evidence, that monetary
policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.
I'll go
with Jacques - René here: if you don't think the Official Languages Act is good
policy, why just not call for its repeal instead of tip - toeing around the issue and making excuses about English Canada's
failure to adapt?
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work
with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to
failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new
policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
If there is a danger that monetary
policy will be seen as «too difficult», there is also a risk that too much will be expected of it or, at least, that its success or
failure will be judged against an impossibly - high standard: it can't cure the business cycle; it can't reduce inflation costlessly; and it can't be operated
with surgical precision.
But the scope and scale of the data mishandling, coupled
with Facebook's
failure to inform users when it found about the
policy breach in 2015 have played very badly
with markets and users alike...
First, since monetary
policy acts only
with a lag
failure to raise rates would risk an overheating economy and an acceleration of inflation possibly necessitating a sharp and destabilizing hike in rates later.
In addition to making
policy recommendations on administration
policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any
failures of the executive branch to comply
with religious liberty protections under law.»
These actions, along
with the board's assertion of «substantial liquidity» just months before the collapse and a progressive dividend
policy (apparently at the expense of employees» pension fund contributions), have prompted questions on whether oversight
failures relate to coziness
with management, or simply competence.
It's hard to find a
policy with a more consistent track record of
failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist
policies and ideals: the
failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently)
with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning
with Russia.
U.S. violations of international law,
failure to curb covert activities, refusal on «national security grounds» to release key evidence in the Iran - Contra and related trials, cooperation
with drug runners in pursuit of illegal foreign
policy objectives, and an obedient press all point dangerously towards a national security state.
Hasker, pointing out that this would involve deception on God's part, expresses shock at my apparent
failure to recognize,
with him and Descartes, that it would be «impossible for God to engage in a
policy of massive deception.
The university is expected to be charged
with a «
failure to monitor» for part of its athletics program, according to sources, who told NJ Advance Media other possible violations include allegations of wrongdoing
with regards to football recruits and the program's recruiting host / hostess program as well as what's been described by sources as «inconsistencies» in the administration of the athletic department's drug testing procedures and
policies.
just think of the lineup we could have had if our management team had any foresight and changed their fiscal
policies when they promised we could compete
with any team in the world... instead we are a team that sells it's stars, let's it's top players rundown their contracts and doesn't properly produce and / or develop their young talent... remember when we played Bayern last year we had a higher weekly wage bill and yet they had Lewandowski, Vidal, Mueller, Ribery, Neuer, Lahm, Alonso among others in their lineup... if that doesn't open your eyes to the utter
failure of those making soccer decsions, nothing will
However, when it comes to child protection, routine engagement
with fathers and father - figures has seemed a distant ideal: safeguarding
policy has repeatedly failed to identify this as an issue despite the fact that Serious Case Reviews over a twenty year period (most recently the Ofsted Serious Case Review summary of 46 cases, as well as both of the Baby Peter Serious Case Reviews) have found
failure by practitioners to engage
with the men in children's lives to be a major factor in child abuse and deaths.
A permit holder's
failure to comply
with the
policy could subject the user to permit revocation.
Baby Milk Action's
Policy Director, Patti Rundall, OBE, is lodging a complaint of maladministration
with the EU Ombudsman following the Commission's
failure to issue a correction before the crucial ENVI vote.
With the arguable
failure of those
policies in the economic domain, the brand eventually lost its value in the public eye.
Faced
with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and
failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive
policy wish list.
If he is not prepared to put his career on the line by only voting slavishly in line
with the whip then there can not be any complaints about his lack of credibility when it comes to raising issues regarding his party's
policy failures.
The
policy of appeasement that was pursued by Britain and France in the 1930s in order to accommodate those dictators, particularly the German leader, Adolf Hitler, was a
failure and millions of people paid
with their lives for it.
«
With the U.S. Senate's recent
failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy
policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»
Robert Renwick, a former Foreign Office mandarin, worked closely
with Margaret Thatcher and his A Journey
with Margaret Thatcher: Foreign
Policy under the Iron Lady (Biteback # 20) is a personal assessment of her successes and
failures.
It is however important because of its ramifications.There are many political issues
with no apparent relationship to people «s everyday lives which then turn round and bite them.The
policy of appeasement in the thirties is one example, another is a
failure to develop technical education in Britain comparable to Germany.Neither
policy brought people out on the street, each has had a pervasive effect on people «s lives.
If so, Cameron would be wise not to appear more concerned
with attacking Corbyn than
with addressing
policy failures.
«This basic
failure to gather information has combined
with years of wrong
policies to produce the chaotic immigration system Britain now suffers from.»
The evidence for its
policy failure is now so overwhelming that turning your back on the very concept of evidence is the only way you can justify continuing
with it.
To be clear, neither the residents I talked
with nor I blamed the
failures of government
policy on the mosque.
Their support will only return if the economy provides them
with decent, well paid jobs that offer security and prosperity, which requires a hard - headed assessment of the weaknesses of the pedestrian, laggard sectors of the UK economy and the
failure of skills and innovation
policy to shift their performance of the last decade.
With community groups still spurning Cuomo despite his attempt to strongarm Democratic unity and win WFP support, the New York political world entered something of a parallel universe in which the governor and his allies act like Cuomo has always been a champion of party unity and that the primary fight is about anything but progressive
policy failures due to years of a sanctioned Democratic split.
They have watched the haemorrhage, over the past four years, of activists from their constituency associations, people who have abandoned the party over disillusion
with its
policies and its
failure to be more robustly and unapologetically conservative.
Given DHS's
failure to share this
policy with the court, OTDA finds the Nov. 14 implementation date — a mere 10 days after the
policy change was announced — to be completely unreasonable and is not supported by the state.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt says a Conservative pledge to make primary school children resit Sats is «a terrifying admission of
failure»
with their education
policy.
But no amount of back - door social engineering, tinkering
with university admissions
policies or dumbing - down of exam standards will redress the fundamental
failure of the present one - size - fits - all, education system.
«If we don't build on the lessons from previous
policy successes and
failures to understand what works and why, we risk wasting time and money in a way that we simply can't afford,» said Anadon, who authored the new paper
with colleagues from the Harvard Kennedy School as well as the University of Minnesota's Prof Gabriel Chan.
Non-compliance
with scholarly journal
policies (both journal - specific and general), including, but not limited to: multiple simultaneous submissions to different journals, re-publication of one's own prior work (duplicate publications)(see also item 3 above),
failure to rectify / correct one's own published record when errors or inaccuracies are found or reported by self or third parties.
Timely modern - day commentary is offered in this look back to the drama that unfolded
with the release of several volumes of classified military documents that outline the
failure of U.S.
policy in Vietnam.
Several of the most significant features of recent education
policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates
with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools
with low average test scores are
failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.
Anne Heavey, education
policy adviser
with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, described the plan as «at best ill - thought - out and at worst a threat to the mental health and well - being of our children»,
with the risk that some children would feel branded as «
failures from day one».
Here's the best stuff I've seen: This Gerson column smartly points out the federal government's successes and
failures (and though this superb Brooks column on evolving conservative
policy thinking isn't about The War on Poverty per se, it should be read in conjunction
with Gerson's).
Blaming the
failure of teachers on
policies that allow charter schools to syphon off resources that they need to be better teachers was met
with the response by DeVos that «traditional public schools and charter schools should be thought of as parts of the same public school system,» an accurate and valid response!
Design your system
with failure in mind so the inevitable closing of schools will go smoothly, advised Alex Medler, vice president of
policy and advocacy for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.
I guess the monopolists at NEA aren't comfortable
with equity, because using that term leaves them open to blame for keeping poor and minority kids in urban
failure factories by waging war on
policies that would help them escape.
In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different
policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households
with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic
failure, and subsidies for those in households
with incomes at or below the poverty line.
The fact that many teachers come into the profession
with little in the way of subject - matter competency and training in classroom instructional methods — a fault that lies largely
with the
failures of the nation's university schools of education (who are aided and abetted by the NEA and AFT)-- also means that not every teacher has the expertise needed to offer a thoughtful view on
policies and practices.