Sentences with phrase «policy officials at»

Top policy officials at the AARP are trying to make the future of Social Security and Medicare top issues for the 2012 election cycle.

At that point, the companies would have to begin haggling to fend off some proposals that would be intolerable, according to a top policy official at a major internet company.

The new research published Monday in Nature was done by Carolyn Snyder, now a climate policy official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a part of her doctoral dissertation at Stanford University, according to the Associated Press (AP).

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra has over ten years of experience as a lawyer in Vancouver representing First Nations governments and as a senior policy official at the City of Toronto.

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In February, Simon Milner, Facebook's U.K. head of policy at the time, told officials that Cambridge Analytica did not have any Facebook data.

Trump's focus on U.S. automotive jobs, and uncertainty over what policies he may introduce, have been central topics of discussions among industry officials at the annual auto show.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

And in the days before Thanksgiving, senior U.S. officials from several agencies met at the White House to discuss the policy, according to current and former officials.

Officials believe that one reason for the increase in reporting at the academy in upstate New York may have been a change in the reporting policy and relocation of a victim assistance office.

«The choice of Williams... would in effect have chosen to prioritize monetary policy expertise over first - hand experience of financial markets and diversity considerations pushed by some,» wrote Krishna Guha, Fed watcher at ISI Evercore and a former NY Fed official.

Citing recent student movement protests, some of which involved 1960s style sit - ins at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts Amherst that motivated official review of the school's investment policies, she pointed to Yale.

Federal Reserve officials go out of their way to assure financial markets that they could make a policy move at any meeting, not just the four of eight meetings per year that are accompanied by a press conference from the Fed chairman.

At a time when the White House has vowed to act more forcefully against North Korea, Iran and other threats, some officials see the Cuba problem as yet another lesson in the dangers of using intelligence selectively to advance policy goals.

But in a new administration that had not filled senior Latin America posts at the State Department or on the NSC staff, many officials said there was a vacuum of policy leadership on the issue.

Chinese and Canadian officials meeting at a seminar on asset management and economic development in the central and western regions of China, feel that the Chinese government's preferential policies for the introduction of foreign investment in the region, along with an abundance of natural resources and the booming infrastructure development, offer opportunities for economic cooperation between...

But it let the public know what its officials had at stake in the policies for which they advocated.

The moral Contrasting Ms. Bachmann's remarks to the panicky claims by Mr. Geithner and Hank Paulson in September 2008 confirm a basic axiom of today's junk economics: When an economic error becomes so widespread that it is adopted as official government policy, there is always a special interest at work to promote it.

At the same time, a few officials «noted that the changes in tax policy could boost the level of potential output», the minutes said.

Don McCutchan, an international policy adviser at the Toronto law firm Gowlings and a former senior federal official, calls Carney «tough, effective and the smartest guy in the room.»

Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and one of the Trump administration's most senior economic policy officials, struck a similar note in his own farewell note about Cohn, saying he «never expected that the coworker I would work closest, and best, with at the White House would be a «globalist.

If you look back at the press release which accompanied our easing of monetary policy in December 1998, you will see it referred to the expectation by official and private forecasters that 1999 would be a worse year than 1998.

G - 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Baden - Baden over the weekend dropped a long - standing reference to the pursuit of free and open trade and the rejection of protectionism in their official commnique, a move many saw as a swipe at U.S. - focused trade policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration.

They said students are getting around the backpack policy by putting liners or non-clear bags inside them, and that school officials were inconsistent at searching them.

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a senior official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked for 15 years in a range of positions related to economic analysis, policy making and global governance.

Prior to joining U.S. Bank in 2012, Roosevelt was an associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he helped shape monetary policy by providing fixed income, foreign exchange and macroeconomic research to senior Federal Reserve officials.

Fed signals potential March rate hike In minutes released this week, US Federal Reserve officials signaled the potential for a rate hike at its next policy meeting in March.

City officials had prepared for the biggest march since about a half - million women gathered on the day after Mr. Trump's inauguration, declaring a new political movement aimed at resisting the president and his policies.

Nevertheless, the apparent success of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation of the central bank's bond purchases — scheduled to continue for at least the rest of the year — and in the wake of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates of the odds of a rise in official interest rates before the end of 2017 to more than 50 %.

Previously, Cam served as senior economic advisor to the leader of Canada's official opposition and director of international policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

BOE's Carney Suggests Falling Unemployment Doesn't Mean Rates Will Rise Bank of England Gov. Carney said the U.K. central bank will look at a broad range of economic factors when assessing the need for higher interest rates, a sign that officials may be preparing to play down the link between BOE policy and falling unemployment.

The official goal of monetary policy, or at least one of them, was to achieve price stability being clearly defined as 2 % inflation (PCE Deflator).

Service animals accompanying disabled customers or government officials are carried at no additional charge to the customer, subject to policy herein.

Social network theorists and activists give the event a veneer of authenticity, but in truth it boasts a toxic piñata of attendees: U.S. officials, telecom magnates, security consultants, finance capitalists and foreign - policy tech vultures like Alec Ross (Cohen's twin at the State Department).

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

Officials from both sides have said that the conversation will be focused on topics of shared values and priorities, but prior to the visit, Vatican Radio — which, according to USA Today «is considered an official organ of communication for the church «-- released a story addressing U.S. policy issues at odds with Vatican teaching.

Even if these aren't their official policies anymore, they've sent many many people out into the world who believe what they were taught at BJU and are teaching it to others.

The law established at the State Department a very senior diplomatic official — the IRF ambassador at large — to lead in matters of policy, and to put the promotion of religious freedom at the center of American diplomacy.

I asked Bob Brigham, a vice-president at Harrah's, what the casino's official policy is in this regard.

No official numbers have been released yet, but my contacts at World Vision report that thousands of children lost their sponsorships yesterday as evangelicals withdrew funds in protest to World Vision's policy of employing people in same - sex marriages.

If Indian officials were to move forward with anti-conversion legislation or other policies directed at Christians, «he would be a good rubber stamp for the government,» said Sandeep Kumar, a church planter and principal of Mission India Bible College, in an interview with CT. «There is no room for Christians in his understanding.»

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

Health Care in an Aging Society Mr. James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

«Official policy documents talk about doubling of dairy production in a sustainable manner, and that is where the trouble starts - if you look at the processing of milk, you are talking about two to three liters of wastewater for every single of liter of milk that is processed.

@ Mohawk no you are not wrong, WENGER slightly changed his subs policy, when he was feeling the heat of angry fans, critics from the owners (Uzmanov), losing incredible games or letting ANDERLECHT ran us over at the Emirates, it was only then when he realized that he needed to bring SUBS and not just sit there petrified playing with his zipper or mumbling fruitless complaints against he 4th official.

Arsenal are one of the most followed and 4th Richest Football club in the world, just behind the likes of Manchester United and two Spanish power houses Real Madrid and Barcelona, and thats according to Forbes most valueable football clubs in the world, they have a strict wage policy in place, where players are divided into different categories and they are paid the same amount of money as other players in that category, well thats what it seems if we look at the official wage structure of Arsenal.

It's often thanks to our measured, intelligent and persuasive lobbying and that fathers and fatherhood get any attention at all in official policies and documents.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.