Despite the regulatory penalties, the bank's profits fell just about 4 % last year,
preserving its place among the most profitable companies in the Fortune 500.
Boards are empowered to protect shareholders, but many shareholders have become sympathetic to activists because they believe the system has inherent conflicts of interest; that directors are more interested in collecting paychecks and
preserving their status quo than in exercising their fiduciary duty to shareholders.
So draw down on the inflexible assets first,
preserving your flexible assets.
If the program detects sandboxing, the malware won't execute, thus
preserving the attacker's identity.
Preserving capitalin volatile times is an art in itself, but one analyst says the safe haven play is now creating bubbles in safe haven assets, indicating losses could be just around the corner.
Rather than ditching everything, I'm focused on
preserving what works while quickly changing what doesn't.»
We have to continue
preserving our democracy,» she says.
The key for the newcomers is delivering the performance that incumbents» customers require, while
preserving the advantages that drove their early success.
Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.
Much of EPA's work involves
preserving those gains, which should not be taken for granted.
They focus on
preserving as well as increasing the wealth in their care.
For instance, it's unclear how
preserving guaranteed insurance eligibility for people with pre-existing medical conditions can work without the unpopular coverage mandate (since people could then just buy insurance when they get sick, bankrupting insurers), or how governments would fund historically pricey «high - risk pools» for the sickest Americans.
Data preservation is the process of collecting and
preserving digital evidence from media such as hard drives and mobile devices, and «the most robust way to preserve evidence is to create a forensic image,» says James Aquilina, executive managing director and head of the digital forensics practice at Stroz Friedberg.
Much like owning a home, maintaining and
preserving the value of an office space can add up.
It likely wasn't just about
preserving her reputation as premier, but protecting Wynne's biggest asset and the foundation upon which the 2014 Liberal campaign was built: authenticity, an elusive quality among politicians.
By contrast, pension funds are always focused on
preserving capital in down cycles.
When retrieved, the data can be projected three - dimensionally, while also
preserving the original orientation and strength of the light — and thus, scientists have taken to calling it «five - dimensional» storage.
Obviously, it should be considered the most basic kind of self -
preserving behavior on the part of a financial institution to maintain a strong cybersecurity policy and enforce it, but we are where we are.
The agency's targeted and graduated approach to regulation could help scare away fraudsters, while
preserving the positive features of the technology, particularly its ability to raise funds globally with little friction and few fees.
• Akouos, a Brookline, Mass. - based biotechnology company focused on restoring and
preserving hearing, raised $ 7.5 million in seed funding.
Problem is, land - use restrictions are usually enacted for valid reasons such as protecting the environment, reducing urban sprawl and
preserving agricultural land.
If you're hell - bent on
preserving the phone - free sanctity of the theater, you should do what so many moviegoers did yesterday: Complain about the policies on social media.
If everyone were to frame their investment choices around such goals as eliminating poverty,
preserving ocean ecosystems and fostering innovation for sustainable cities, the world would certainly begin to look different.
(It also shows how aggressive Facebook has been in
preserving its lead: It paid $ 19 billion for WhatsApp, which has about 700 million users, and $ 1 billion for Instagram, which now has more than 300 million.)
Strength or resistance training can take many forms, but it typically involves a series of movements geared toward building or
preserving muscle.
Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, are rarely concerned with
preserving circumstances as they are — instead, they desire to incite positive change by shaking things up.
Reclaimed wood is made from
preserving and re-using old wood, often for home and commercial interiors.
The wage demand, pushed by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during intensive talks in Washington last week on modernizing the North American Free Tree Agreement, are aimed at
preserving U.S. and Canadian auto production and putting upward pressure on Mexico's low auto wages.
His main priority was to produce high - quality coffee beans while helping the struggling community and
preserving the land.
In other words, Netflix's deals may not overtly challenge Net Neutrality, but the prospects for
preserving an open Internet going forward don't look good.
I recently caught up with her again and learned even more about one of my passions:
preserving and improving the brain's capacity.
Still, many wealthier retirees opt to buy long - term care coverage as a way of
preserving more assets for their future heirs.
Where conventional web browsers like Chrome and Firefox make no effort to conceal your location or identity, Tor is built upon the idea of
preserving anonymity as aggressively as possible.
toys, announced on Thursday that he and some affiliated investors were seeking $ 800 million from toy lovers in hopes of acquiring «all or some» of Toy «R» Us's assets, thus «saving the retail chain and
preserving the Toys «R» Us experience for future generations.
Reddick robbed Jason Kipnis of a home run,
preserving the Houston Astros» 3 - 1 lead over the Cleveland Indians.
We as a nation have struggled with maintaining integrity in leadership, achieving peace, and
preserving the rights of the American people.
Or say you just want employees to remember and keep on remembering the importance of
preserving cash or boosting gross margins or maybe just recording a profit at the end of a month.
With a website called Punk Domestics dedicated to
preserving, restaurants upping their pickle game and a shoutout in satiric television show Portlandia, pickles should be everywhere in 2014.
For small Canadian companies, capturing opportunities abroad while
preserving the homegrown advantage often requires stretching across borders, national legislations and tax systems without the legal and bureaucratic arsenal deployed by corporations.
They also contribute to a spirit of unusual cohesion,
preserving a culture across eight time zones.
He appealed to the U.S. to rejoin the Paris climate accord and create a «low - carbon economy» because «there is no Planet B.» He said remaining with America's allies in the Iran nuclear deal, at least until some replacement is negotiated, is the best path for fighting terrorism,
preserving peace and avoiding nuclear proliferation.
Say «our objective is to cut through the slump intact,
preserving as many of our skills as a high - trained workforce as possible, and we're going to need a little help,»» says Yager.
As the freelance economy continues to grow, more organizations follows the lead of PwC to transition their knowledge to the talent platforms and stay connected with their freelancers as an ongoing resource for the company — while
preserving these connections and data as part of the company's base of institutional knowledge.
He cast «intelligently regulated market economies» as the path for
preserving globalization's benefits while reducing the destabilizing inequality it has caused at the same time.
Nebula Genomics has an ambitious plan to fuel drug development while
preserving genetic data security.
The challenge of
preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.
But the Internet is also a fickle mistress when it comes to
preserving the evidence for the future.
And I'm going to see another technology in the U.S. that reduces nitrogen oxide emissions from diesel trucks by up to 50 % while
preserving horsepower.
At the end of the day, any solution that saves time while
preserving efficiencies will continue to carry appeal.
Today's world of taxidermy isn't exclusive to
preserving real specimens.