Sentences with phrase «policy on the assumption»

We simply can not afford to formulate public policy on the assumption that all living relationships are of equal value to society.

MBIA Corp. underwrites its policies on the assumption that the insurance will remain in force until maturity of the insured obligations.

But basing our policy on the assumption that this is the way things will go is crazy, IMHO.

I suppose that if all uncertainties are resolved in the direction of lower risk, we just might get away with BAU for the next few decades without a complete disaster... But basing our policy on the assumption that this is the way things will go is crazy»

An agent thinks they need to present the lowest price to win the business of a client and the only way they can lower the price and keep the same face amount is by putting all of the weight of the policy on assumptions about interest, mortality experience and company performance as opposed to putting the health of the policy all in the guaranteed column.

Not exact matches

It would be unfortunate if this were the case, as this data is reported on with the assumption it is reliable and local policy makers and economic development agencies use the data when making policy.

(The Bank of Canada assumes they will converge in the future, but that is based on the assumption monetary policy works as it always did.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

If the original tax base is $ 263 billion and if nothing else changes — the assumption you have to make in assessing the effects of a policy — then this information is enough to put some numbers on the sort of revenues you can expect to generate by an increase in corporate tax revenues.

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

While all of these infrastructure policy programs have an explicit focus on accelerating capital formation for infrastructure, they rest on the assumption that information about viable projects is readily available within the economy.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

The analysis relies on a number of assumptions about how monetary policy affects debt and how debt affects financial stability.

Present policy is based on the assumption that the U.S. economy will crash if we don't keep the debt overhead growing at past exponential rates.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

The concern that the network hashrate will become too low is based on several assumptions and variables, including the number of daily transactions, the willingness of the users to wait for confirmations, the willingness of the users to pay small amounts, the behavior of the miners, the fee policies set by various wallets, the emergent consensus on acceptable fees by the mining community, and other factors, including what actually is «too low» of a network hashrate in the first place.

The entire premise of your article is based on the assumption that the U.S. will only take action against Mexico without being flexible in its trade policies against other countries down the road.

So how can Canadians reverse this assumption, widely held on the part of the political class, that raising taxes is a safe policy?

The OPEC / non-OPEC deal is working, and the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies — oil prices at US$ 40 — can allow it to live forever at that price or below, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday.

Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Markit, predicts that the economy will grow a modest 2 percent to 2.5 percent this year, before accelerating next year to 2.6 percent to 2.7 percent on the assumption that Trump's policy proposals will have begun to take full effect by then.

His skepticism undermines the idea of objective truth and thereby gives reason to be suspicious of claims and policies based on the assumption of it.

The policies they advocate on the assumption that individuals are purely self - interested systematically erode the communities that depend on the importance of human relations that are not contractual.

A frontal attack on this assumption should be more difficult for economists, along with those who implement economistic policies, to ignore.

But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt policies oriented to economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this model.

Nevertheless, these basic assumptions exercise a profound influence on their thought and, through that, on the policies that now shape the world.

Public policy initiatives are proceeding on other suspect assumptions.

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The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

It also undercuts the assumptions that all three countries are able to stay in step on policy towards North Korea, the primary immediate threat to the security of both Asian states.

Now some might criticise me for reviewing a book I haven't read but since IDS hasn't bothered to find out anything about the thousands of lives his brutal policies have destroyed but simply attacked them based on his own prejudices and assumptions I feel compelled to adopt his own methods towards this garbage.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

Forgoing his slicker, better - known brother David, it apparently bought into the younger Miliband's soft - left strategy of opposing the coalition's austerity policies, on the assumption it would fail and become wildly unpopular among voters.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has meanwhile accused the Government of making immigration policy on the false assumption that «Joe Public, out there, is a bigot».

All of which works on the assumption that David Cameron and Andrew Lansley are such bas salesmen that they can't communicate a policy mesage.

, is authored by IAS Policy Analyst Aveek Bhattacharya and claims that «these estimates rely on data that are between 4 and 12 years out of date and sensitive to questionable assumptions and methodological judgements».

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides of Derby said, «The deficit was expected because the state's budget policies over the years have been built on false assumptions, that increasing taxes will be sufficient to meet spending levels.

In fact, some of them didn't even mention it, being far more upset by a comment attributed to Watson a couple of sentences earlier: He was «inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,» Watson had told The Sunday Times, because «all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.»

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

The book includes chapters on the economic assumptions used, energy supply and storage technologies, demand and technology assumptions, a reference scenario, variations on that scenario, federal and state policies needed, a «roadmap,» and a final chapter of the main findings and recommendations.

Differences in projections of warming by the end of the century appear to be related to assumptions made on emission trajectories and the ambitiousness of climate policies beyond 2030 rather than differences in methodology or climate modeling.

Fortunately, we found that the characteristics of this disease were nearly identical to those of previously circulating influenza viruses, meaning that policies and models based on those assumptions could be applied to the control of 2009 H1N1,» said Justin Lessler, lead author of the study and research associate with the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.»

Most academic research on education policy suffers from a similar implicit assumption: that the schools automatically use their resources well.

Creating an occupation built on the assumption of teachers as mind workers is the most important education policy frontier facing us.

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Whether that assumption holds true depends on what form of freedom we mean and how policies are designed.

The 2014 policy rested on a fundamental assumption: that differences in student behavior were not themselves driving differential rates of suspensions and expulsions.

But he added: «Policies are based on assumptions that there is an issue... I am always assuming there is an issue.»

There is little evidence to support the assumption that state policies bypass the district and have a direct impact on the behavior of principals.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

Our response to Secretary Duncan expresses other concerns as well, stressing the importance of evidence - based policy making, and explaining why pilot evaluation studies are preferable to the large - scale adoption of unproven state - mandated evaluation systems based on untested assumptions.