Sentences with phrase «policy planning groups»

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While the Republican - led tax reform plan is short on details at this point, the head of a tax policy group called the plan «viable.»

«The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair and unconstitutional policies that have been imposed on you,» Sessions plans to tell a group of law enforcement officers, according to prepared remarks seen by Reuters.

One common mistake entrepreneurs make in their business plans is to project that they will capture a certain percentage of the overall market for their product without fully explaining how they intend to do that, says Mark Steranka, director of planning and policy for Moss Adams» Consulting Group in Seattle.

Driving the other camp are the tech companies and industry groups for whom the partisan deadlock on net neutrality risks stalling business plans and distracts from other policy debates they'd prefer to be having.

U.S. business groups, while uneasy about triggering Chinese retaliation, have increasingly pressed Washington to take action on Beijing's industrial policies, such as market access restrictions and the «Made in China 2025» plan, which aims to supplant foreign technologies with domestic ones.

Given the considerable number of background studies and the solid work of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization of Canadian innovations.

In addition, as part of the broader project, workshops are planned in both Washington and Beijing that will bring together leading experts on U.S. - China relations, as well as representatives of the expert groups polled by the project, to discuss in detail the survey findings and their implications for policy in the United States and China.

«The panoply of public policies offering «voluntary» options for saving - such as RRSPs, TFSAs, group RPPs, and the most recent Pool Registration Pension Plans - have demonstrated their inadequacy to address the shortcomings in declining workplace pensions and a Canada Pension Plan with limited benefits,» the study concludes.

Specifically, benefits subject to the HP Severance Policy include: (a) separation payments based on a multiplier of salary plus target bonus, or cash amounts payable for the uncompleted portion of employment agreements; (b) any gross - up payments made in connection with severance, retirement or similar payments, including any gross - up payments with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code; (c) the value of any service period credited to a Section 16 officer in excess of the period of service actually provided by such Section 16 officer for purposes of any employee benefit plan; (d) the value of benefits and perquisites that are inconsistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to one or more groups of HP Co. employees in addition to, or other than, the Section 16 officers («Company Practices»); and (e) the value of any accelerated vesting of any stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or long - term cash incentives that is inconsistent with Company Practices.

This week Carney will meet with the Monetary Policy Committee, a nine - member group, to discuss whether to expand England's stimulus plan.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Karen's background in public policy, communications, strategic planning, and issues management is founded on previous roles with Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG group, Westport Innovations, the United States Consulate General (Vancouver), and the Business Council of British Columbia.

Second row standing from left to right: F. Robert Salerno, President & CEO, Cendant Car Rental Group; Richard Wistrand, Senior Vice President & Chief Fossil Officer, TXU; David Rader, Senior Vice President Finance and CFO, Frito - Lay Division, PepsiCo, Inc.; Mirian Graddick - Weir, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, AT&T; Lisa Martin, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.; Theo Fletcher, Vice President, Supply Chain Compliance, Security & Diversity, IBM Corporation; A. Shuanise Washington, Vice President Government Affairs Policy and Outreach, Altria Group, Inc.; Bruce Perkins, Vice President, Manager, Supplier Diversity and Business Development Group, Merrill Lynch; Joyce M. Wichie, Director, Supplier Diversity, Worldwide Purchasing, Eastman Kodak Company; Dick Anderson, Vice Chairman, Planning & Administration, BellSouth Corporation; John D. Hofmeister, President and Country Chair, Shell Oil Company; Robert McCormes - Ballou, Director, Vendor Diversity, Office Depot; and Michael L. Eskew, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS.

The Education Secretary has outlined plans to stop campaign groups complaining about the admissions policies... More

hopefully you do not plan on collecting soc sec or medicare, because a group insurance policy where kids stay on their parents» policy is THE SAME FRIGGIN THING, you nitwit.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

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.

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.

Mars plans to quit industry - funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.

In the context of policy coherence, the Development Working Group was encouraged to continue its efforts to develop concrete actions as part of its Implementation Plan for the Food Security and Nutrition Framework.

In the context of policy coherence, the Development Working Group was encouraged to continue its efforts to develop actions to reduce FLW as part of its Implementation Plan for the G20 Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Framework -LSB-...]

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Tuesday Questions - HM Treasury Ten minute rule motion - Food labelling (Halal and Kosher Meat) Motions: Relating to Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, EU directive on data protection in the areas of police and criminal justice Debate: General debate on the National Planning Policy framework Adjournment debate: Jobs at Group Lotus

Tuesday 10.05 - Transport rail 2020, Maggie Simpson, Policy Manager, Rail Freight Group and Nigel Jones, Head of Planning and Strategy, DB Schenker; Michael Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Train Operating Companies, Paul Plummer, Group Strategy Director, Network Rail, Jeremy Candfield, Director General, Railway Industry Association and Dr Richard Wellings, Deputy Editorial Director, Institute of Economic Affairs; Kaj Mook, Head of Customer Service Transition, Merseyrail

He said the group was positioned to avoid all errors of misrule of former affiliation and assured that there was enough capital, human and material resources to plan policies towards better technological skilled manpower development for brighter economic attainment of the new state.

As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

A variety of unions, community groups, policy advocates are planning a major push to rally support for the bill.

Fred Floss, director of the union - backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than two percent a year, would result in what his group calls a decade of austerity that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

A group of MPs have criticised the Scottish government's proposed foreign policy plans should they gain independence.

Reaction to congressional plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act came swiftly from New York's healthcare advocates and liberal policy groups.

The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats» Policy Group, includes proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.

Citizen Action is planning to continue resistance efforts with «100 Days of Action,» which will include actions individuals and community groups can take daily to resist the plans and policies of the Trump administration.

Questions on other topics include: the NYS Attorney General's investigation of the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee, whether de Blasio's pre-K initiative will include private and parochial schools, the «absent teacher reserve», a protest by Girls Prep supporters against de Blasio's expected charter school policies, performance of Administration for Children's Services and whether de Blasio plans to contact the St. Patrick's Day Parade committee to urge them to lift their exclusion of LGBT groups and organizations.

This week, a researcher for the New York Public Interest Research Group, Bill Mahoney, examined the websites of Mr. Cuomo; Rob Astorino, the Republican candidate for governor; and Howie Hawkins, the Green Party's nominee in the race, to assess the expansiveness of their respective policy plans.

The group plans to march alongside over 100 Westchester residents in New York City this weekend to protest in favor of legislation and policies regarding human rights, immigration reform, and women's rights.

Cuomo's announcement earned him national attention and praise from a good deal of education and student groups, but many legislators and policy analysts say the governor hasn't provided enough details to determine whether the plan is realistic.

Charles King, the chief executive at Housing Works, is credited with developing the Plan to End AIDS, along with Mark Harrington, the head of the Treatment Action Group, a policy organization.

Plans for yet another residential building that relied on the de Blasio administration's affordable housing policy have withered, after community groups and local officials rallied against Tocci Brothers» proposed development in Vinegar Hill.

So the Club for Growth — an advocacy group focused on conservative economic policy and which supports a full repeal of ObamaCare — announced a $ 1 million ad campaign targeting 10 House Republicans to prod them to support the health care plan.

The failed effort to sink her nomination was led by policy - minded groups, not «the political left that took the lead on defeating the GOP Obamacare repeal plan,» they write, noting that the policy groups «weren't as well - equipped to mobilize grass - roots pushback.»

Fred Floss, director of the union backed think tank Fiscal Policy Institute, says Cuomo's plan to focus on property and business tax cuts, along with a commitment to continue to hold spending to less than 2 % a year, would result in what his group calls a «decade of austerity,» that could harm infrastructure and economic growth.

• First, many if not most plans reported losing money on individual and small - group policies under the state - imposed rates for 2015 and 2016.

«They've played an invaluable role of maintaining the ongoing discourse on congestion pricing,» said Scott Rechler, chairman of the Regional Planning Association, an influential urban policy group, and another member of the state task force.

The group reserves its worst grade for the governor's plan to shift significant costs to New York City by reversing a policy to help the city pick up Medicaid cost increases, and by slashing the City University's budget.

Some details of the plan are expected to be released next week when the «Bix Six» working group of Republican congressional leaders and the White House economic team outline their policy framework.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Workshop Agenda 8:30: Registration 9:00: Introduction and Overview 9:30: Codes of Conduct 10:30: Break 10:45: Checklists 11:45: Break 12:15: Working Lunch: Cases 1:00: Summary of Lunch Discussions 1:30: Individual Development Plans 2:30: Break 2:4: Group Policies 3:45: Assessment 4:45: Closing Summary, Next Steps, Evaluation 5:00: Adjourn

The medium of engagement (e.g. social media, news media, policy engagement, talks with community groups, science cafés, science festivals) varies, but each Fellow's plan expresses clear goals for public engagement and institutional change, appropriate audiences, and specific strategies.

And when I say «war» in this post, I mean also militarism, the culture of war, the armies, arms, industries, policies, plans, propaganda, prejudices, rationalizations that make lethal group conflict not only possible but also likely

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.