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In this role, he contributed to policy recommendations in the U.S. DOE's first Quadrennial Energy Review aimed at improving the efficiency of energy infrastructure systems in the U.S..

The document also present policy recommendations in 7 priority areas to make IWT in the UNECE region more efficient and sustainable.

It presents overall policy recommendations in low - carbon city development and highlights specific experiences across key sectors, including energy, transport, solid waste, and water.

Learn more about how we create teacher - led policy recommendations in order to bridge the divide between policymakers and the classroom.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

SSAT has also launched a series of policy recommendations in its «Building on Consensus» document.

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The advisory group was established in 2010 with the purpose of providing the Secretary of Commerce with recommendations around policies and programs that support entrepreneurship and help cultivate a skilled workforce.

It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.

In one of the report's recommendations of policies to enhance global financial stability, it urged the Federal Reserve to clearly communicate its intentions on tapering the stimulus.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.

US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin complained about persistent trade surpluses and stated that «We urge the IMF to speak out more forcefully on the issue of external imbalances, including by providing clear policy recommendations for countries with large surpluses, in support of more balanced global growth.»

This is why, besides my investigation, which could result in enforcement action, I will also be making clear public policy recommendations to help us understand how our personal data is used online and what we can do to control how it's used.»

This may sound like an obvious recommendation given what has been happening in Greece, but it represents a major change to IMF policy thinking.

Our Board has determined, upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and in accordance with our Director Independence Policy, that all eight of our non-executive director nominees (Mr. Bryan, Mr. Dahlbäck, Mr. Friedman, Mr. George, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Juliber, Mr. Mittal and Mr. Schiro) and Mr. Scott are «independent» within the meaning of NYSE rules and our Director Independence Policy.

Participate in The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County's procurement practices through its Small / Local / Minority / Women Business Enterprise Stakeholder Group Meetings to review and comment on the SWA's Disparity Study findings and recommendations and feedback on policy options.

Our Board, upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, has a stock ownership policy that requires each independent director to beneficially own at least 5,000 shares of Common Stock or vested RSUs within two years of becoming a director; all of our independent directors are in compliance with this policy.

The principal recommendation of this report was that Canadian governments must step up and collect the necessary data regarding foreign investment in order for policy - makers and the public to understand if foreign investment is playing a significant part in shaping urban real estate pricing and availability.

In Halifax the party adopted policy recommendations that include universal pharmacare, a guaranteed minimum income, an environmental bill of rights, and an employee pension protection strategy.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The session ends with a mock FOMC meeting in our board room that culminates in the formulation of a policy recommendation.

Using Pakistan as a case study, this article analyzes the ongoing debate and concludes that while there is merit to arguments on both sides, prudent policy recommendations for the governance of the United States» covert drone program fall somewhere in between.

The final section of this article presents policy recommendations aimed at enhancing U.S. counterterrorism strategy while strengthening key alliances and partnerships in this region of immense geostrategic importance.

In addition to this core product line, RiskMetrics owned Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a pioneer in the development of policy - based proxy voting recommendationIn addition to this core product line, RiskMetrics owned Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a pioneer in the development of policy - based proxy voting recommendationin the development of policy - based proxy voting recommendations.

Talk of economic collapse in the popular media could itself cause stocks to sell off, undermine analyst's recommendations, and force politicians to admit their policies aren't working.

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

There was never any co-ordinated government response to the other recommendations, although the commission's thinking was undoubtedly absorbed in the ongoing debate in many policy sectors.

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.»

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

In addition to that, in the last one hundred days we struck two critical panels that will provide our government with recommendations that will help guide our next four years of policIn addition to that, in the last one hundred days we struck two critical panels that will provide our government with recommendations that will help guide our next four years of policin the last one hundred days we struck two critical panels that will provide our government with recommendations that will help guide our next four years of policy.

That Asia matters for domestic policy as much as it does for international policy comes out clearly in a number of the other recommendations in the GPS report, for example:

In the article attached, The Honourable John Manley, the Council's President and CEO, and Brian Kingston, vice president of policy for international and fiscal issues, offer a series of specific recommendations for Canadian trade policy.

The report would have come in the form of a policy recommendation addressed to President Donald Trump.

In order to focus on providing objective, conflict - free research and analysis to our clients, we do not discuss our policies or recommendations with issuers during the solicitation period (which begins on the date the notice of meeting is released and ends on the date of the meeting), unless we decide to conduct a Proxy Talk with the company, which we record for access by our clients.

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long - term partner in Berkshire - Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), usually offers a counter to Buffett's social democrat policy recommendations, such as higher progressive taxes.

Likewise, from time to time Hard Assets Alliance may engage in affiliate programs offered by other companies, though corporate policy firmly dictates that such agreements will have no influence on any product or service recommendations, nor alter the pricing that would otherwise be available in absence of such an agreement.

Clean Energy Canada's new report, Stuck in Neutral, examines the EV market at home and abroad, putting forward a series of policy recommendations that would help Canada accelerate to the front of the pack.

An evangelical caucus, formed early in the Assembly, issued programmatic recommendations to the policy committee, and, at the conclusion of the Assembly, released a letter to churches and fellow evangelicals regarding their experiences.

In hopes of averting further degradation of the environment, Francis proposes a number of policy recommendations, which, though not in themselves doctrinal, or beyond debate, are based upon a «solid scientific analysis of all the data currently available,» as FIn hopes of averting further degradation of the environment, Francis proposes a number of policy recommendations, which, though not in themselves doctrinal, or beyond debate, are based upon a «solid scientific analysis of all the data currently available,» as Fin themselves doctrinal, or beyond debate, are based upon a «solid scientific analysis of all the data currently available,» as Fr.

Q.: It is assumed in all this that triage and lifeboat ethics currently have the status of policy guidelines and recommendations; the proposals were discussed with a great deal of pessimism at the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome.

In May 1985 a Canadian Task Force report on Broadcasting Policy was established by the minister of communications, and it studied most of these same issues within the Canadian context.13 Where applicable, the Canadian Task Force report will be used to supplement the U.S. recommendations.

Although the UNESCO statements make no mention of anticommercialism, the MacBride Report proposes in Recommendation # 58 that «effective legal measures should be designed to: limit the process of concentration and monopolization; [and]... reduce the influence of advertising upon editorial policy and broadcast programming.

When Archbishop Antonio Mennini was appointed as papal nuncio in London, observers of the affairs of the English Church had a good look at his record, for clues to what his policy would be in one of the most important areas of a nuncio's work: making recommendations to the Congregation for Bishops and the Holy Father on who to appoint to dioceses which become vacant.

Though the foreign policy recommendations of his Farewell Address were taken, after the Civil War, to promote isolationism, he was in fact, claim the authors, arguing the advantages of neutrality for independent action.

Leading Bishops could appeal to the new Tory leader to adopt policies which would transform laws which handicap schools into optional recommendations, in order to win back essential freedoms.

The public - policy recommendations include providing state - supported marriage and family education, developing a «family - friendly» workplace, and moving toward a modified «fault» divorce law in cases involving dependent children.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

' «Evangelical Richard J. Mouw asserts that this non-promotion in terms of policy recommendations demonstrates a «lack of sympathy for the poor.»

As a member of the ATAC for Trade in Processed Foods and ITAC 16, Jack provided recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative on U.S. trade policy matters important to frozen food makers and distributors.

The Productivity Commission should be tasked with modelling the recommendations of this Review as a package (in consultation with jurisdictions) to support discussions on policy proposals to pursue.