Sentences with phrase «prodding companies»

At the annual SEC Speaks conference in February 2012, SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro stated that the whistleblower program had provided the agency with «hundreds of higher - quality tips, helping us to avoid investigatory dead - ends and, at the same time, prodding companies to enhance their internal compliance programs.»

Shareholder Proposals on Information Requests Only Shareholder proposals have rightly played an important role in prodding companies both to adopt governance measures and to disclose campaign spending, often following a model developed by the Center for Political Accountability.

To try to prod companies into expansion next year, the Senate bill would allow companies to immediately deduct all capital investments in 2018.

The initiative, Science Based Targets, prods companies to establish plans to slash heat - trapping gases from their operations to help stave off devastating global warming.

Disclosure also would prod companies to reduce their chemical pollution, according to the petition to the EPA.

Consumers doubting its quality placed a chip on the shoulders of the automaker, which prodded the company to aggressively push forward, create inno... more

Rockstar isn't saying much else at the moment, but we're poking and prodding the company to learn more and will update this post if there's a response, as best as we can with our crossed fingers.

Not exact matches

The 30 companies (and their young founders) on our 2017 list have been pulled and prodded, picked at, and pondered.

Instead, free trade prods local companies to up their competitive game.

On the equity side, some funds add «best of the worst» companies to encourage better corporate behavior via proxy voting, such as prodding energy companies to produce more renewable energy.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE: FCAU) is recruiting activist hedge funds to take a stake in General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and prod GM into a merger, according to a Wall Street Journalreport.

Knowing fully well that you will be our guardian angel and guide the Supreme Court Justices to see the pot of gold in breastfeeding not the green bucks of the milk companies and prod them to sign the passage of the final verdict on the revised IRR of the Milk Code (en toto) as Christmas gift.

Evgeny Morozov, well - known for his pessimism with respect to the internet, has an interesting concept of «algorithmic regulation» — whereby Silicon Valley tech companies offer technical solutions to political problems, essentially through using data to try and craft individual behaviours, create certain incentives in order to prod people in certain directions.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $ 20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money.

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Since then Benjamin has been on a roll having been commissioned to score films including Summer in February and Desert Dancer for Crossday Prods, Hours for the Safran Company and most recently, the Viking saga thriller from Vertigo Films, Hammer Of The Gods and Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain, which tells the tragic story of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India and stars Martin Sheen and Mischa Barton.

PENSION FUNDS PROD PEARSON: The Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund is part of a group of pensions with holdings in Pearson that is trying to shake the company out of what they portray as a dangerous complacency.

The Shelby's Tremec has plenty of the mechanical heft the company's boxes are known for, which fits neatly with the engine's personality — though aggressive shifts while accelerating no longer prod the rear to step out thanks to modernized suspension geometry.

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There's been discussion of ways to prod people to save more by encouraging or requiring company - based pensions or private savings.

But your friend is right, the big benefit is the company match and it is no wonder she is prodding you about it.

And while the Securities and Exchange Commission does not require fund companies to disclose active share across the board, perhaps the New York attorney general's action will prod the SEC to consider doing so in the future.

Robert Bowling has told Eurogamer that he and Infinity Ward have a lot of professional respect for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, despite the marketing prods and pokes.

Other companies present that we did not get a chance to meet were: Emergent Game Technologies (Tim Page and Casey Brandi), Enzyme Testing Labs (Yan Cyr and Clément Debetz), Hibernum Créations (Frédérick Faubert and Franck Da Costa), Incomm (Krista Vandermeer and Michael Fraser), Infernal Engine (Joe Kreiner and Ryan Monday), Jet Black Games (Raffaele Freddi), Lithium Prod.

Last week, they took steps to make sure SoCal Gas cleans up its mess, and Governor Jerry Brown says he'll force the company to offset its emissions by support projects that reduce emissions elsewhere — essentially prodding them to do in an ad hoc way what they would have have been forced to do automatically under cap - and - trade.

It may also serve to prod the insurance company into offering a better settlement agreement or to speed your claim along.

According to Kristoff Coates of KICC Consulting and Director of Social Media Management for Attorneys Online ™, Inc., «I am sure your law firm is being pushed and prodded by all the legal marketing companies to get into Twitter, Facebook and all the other social platforms.

A large number of uninsured motorists prods car insurance rates higher because there are fewer insured drivers paying premiums to help offset the risks taken on by the car insurance companies.

The bottom line with both of these is that, in spite of poking and prodding and expressing my outrage, neither company was able to overcome their own inertia and get the job done in a timely manner.

After an apparent prodding by the regulator the company issued a second announcement at the end of the trading day with extra information about the move.

That sucks, and often there's nothing you can do about it because there's no way for multi-billion dollar companies to anticipate your need for a cattle prod or tiny projector that attaches to your phone.

While Samsung can flip a «kill switch» to remotely deactivate every old unit or limit the charge of the battery, — a strategy the company has chosen to apply in the US and Korea — the Canadian division has opted instead for a somewhat gentler prod: a notification every three hours urging users to switch up to a new Note 7.

In the field, licensees do their best, managers assess the results, civil courts, real estate councils and insurance companies poke and prod the entrails.

Conduit lenders, which eventually securitize their loans, have been particularly aggressive, prodding traditionally conservative lenders, such as life insurance companies, to be a bit bolder.

When you sell a property, many folks also don't realize that nonresident aliens are often prodded by title companies to withhold a flat tax on the GROSS sales price of the property.