Sentences with phrase «proposed changes to the process»

By 2022, the FA is targeting an increase to 45 percent, and last week Dyke unveiled his proposed changes to the process of signing foreign players.

Any readers with a background in process management or consulting are intimately aware of the fact that, before you propose a change to a process, you need to understand where the current process is getting you.

The Coalition Comments on Proposed Changes to the Process for Appealing Regents Exam Scores In May 2016, the Coalition submitted comments [PDF] to the New York State Education Department in support of the expansion of the eligible score band for the appeals process on Regents exams passing scores.

OSHA Seeks Comments on Proposed Changes to Process Safety Management Regulations - Chemical Industry Update

Consultation is a way of getting feedback on what's not working in an organization's process and on proposed changes to process.

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He proposes a multi-step process for boat burning that includes testing the proposed tool or model, running a pilot, communicating the change, training people in the revised system and creating a support squad to solve problems along the way.

In addition to slowing first - class delivery to 2 - 3 days, the proposed change will close 252 of the 461 mail processing centers around the nation, resulting in 28,000 lost jobs by 2012.

With the FIA decision the Department made a substantive and irrevocable change to the proposed Rule without any impact analysis or due process for comment on that change.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Finally, the budget proposed changes in the environmental review process for large energy and mining projects would eliminate duplication among jurisdictions and shorten the regulatory timeframe to two years.

In the March 2012 Budget, the Government proposed further changes to the EI rate - setting process.

The Liberal government plans to launch a 75 - day public consultation process on their proposed changes.

As proposed by New Keynesian economist and Ph. D. Huw Dixon, there are three properties to a state of equilibrium; the behavior of agents is consistent, no agent has an incentive to change its behavior, and that the equilibrium is the outcome of some dynamic process.

Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

During the time in which analyses of the sort we have alluded to were being made and such remedies proposed, and in part tried, an unspectacular process of reconstruction has been going on in Church and ministry so that we can speak today of an emerging new conception of the ministry, a conception which leaves it ministry and does not change it into something else.

I Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

Her longtime interest in the political process and public policy came to a head in January of 2011, when the new USDA proposed rules came out and Sandi realized how many changes school nutrition professionals would be facing.

Cuomo pointed to the propose changes to the state's sexual harassment claim processes, saying the issue is ripe for reform.

Copy editors at the New York Times who face possible layoffs sent a letter to their editors protesting the newspaper's proposed changes, and taking aim at the «humiliating» process of forcing those who might be on the chopping block to re-apply for their jobs.

BK Reader article on Borough President Adams voicing his opposition to proposed changes to the admissions process at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Crown Heights.

Cuomo had previously been supportive of holding a convention, but based on proposed changes to the convention structure and delegate election process.

Also, the county is in the process of reviewing and proposing changes to the County Charter.

Blasting the «secret process» by which the mayor selected Cathleen Black as the next schools chancellor, UFT President Michael Mulgrew proposed a resolution at the Nov. 17 Delegate Assembly to fight to change the law to require a public hiring process for chancellor in the future.

The Senate Republicans, who control the process along with Assembly Democrats, have long been pushing for redistricting reform in 2022 instead of 2012, and their initially proposed lines were grotesque and cynical enough that it'd be hard to change the lines and not make them «less hyper political.»

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Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

The good government groups that back a proposed constitutional change to the state's redistricting process plan a voter outreach and education effort in the lead - up to the Nov. 4 election.

I think that the balance of powers in the budget process needs to be changed back to something like that and I believe that the constitutional amendments proposed in A4630 would do a decent job in that regard.

Unfortunately, under the so - called reform that the governor extracted as part of the redistricting agreement, the proposed constitutional amendment to change New York's process will do nothing to reform the problem of unequal representation.

Any changes proposed by Parliament to the processes of law and justice will always be debated fully by both houses before they can go on the statute books or can be moderated enough to be generally acceptable.

John McDonnell has signalled there could be a compromise on proposed changes to the Labour leadership election rules as he said the «heat is off» on the need to reduce MPs» influence on the process.

In that same press release, State Sen. Daniel Squadron added, «I've long supported a key role for community boards in the liquor application process — it doesn't make sense that community boards weren't given a meaningful role in developing proposed changes to the liquor law... Provisions that impact our communities and raise real concerns should not be pushed forward without engaging those communities.»

The 2011 referendum proposing to replace the first - past - the - post (FPTP) voting system with the alternative vote (AV) was the culmination of a long process led by political parties and organised pressure groups pushing for change.

Last week, New York State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McGrath struck down proposed language for the upcoming Proposal 1, which is a referendum question that amends the state constitution to change the state redistricting process.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

«These proposed zoning changes will speed up the process for owners of Sandy - damaged buildings to obtain building permits for elevation and reconstruction and will reduce their vulnerability to future flood events, as well as protect property owners against higher flood insurance premiums,» said CARL WEISBROD, Director of the New York City Department of City Planning and Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission.

Forget the proposed changes to the city's process for modifying deed restrictions.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

If we think a particular process is responsible for the origin of feathers, we could rerun that process, changing the developmental pathway in the bird embryo as a way to test our proposed evolutionary pathway.

He recently wrote to Science summarizing his concerns about the proposed changes to NIH's review process (Science's Compass, 17 September, p. 1850).

Science lobbyists and House Democrats have complained sharply about proposed changes to NSF's peer - review process and a 40 % reduction in authorized funding levels for the agency's social science research programs in the bill.

Once that process is completed, the government will issue a notification spelling out proposed changes to the select agent program.

Her departure comes in the middle of a major overhaul of the agency's food safety oversight and as legislators prepare to propose key changes to its medical product review and approval process.

Debate is heating up over proposed changes to the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) merit review process» «broader impact» criterion, which requires that research have benefits to society beyond merely advancing scientific knowlege.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

Here, we first introduce various quantification metrics based on the extension of co-activation pattern (CAP) analysis, a recently proposed point - process analysis that tracks state alternations at each individual time frame and relies on very few assumptions; then apply these proposed metrics to quantify changes of brain dynamics during a sustained 2 - back working memory (WM) task compared to rest.

Now, 51 years after Feyman proposed «There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom» for science to discover, researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology are gathering to imagine how this young field may change in the next half a century — and in the process, also change our world.

Normally I propose a step - by step process for making a dietary change, but considering where commercial milk has come from, and what it has been through, it is best to just remove it from the diet altogether.

The consultation is published alongside Ofsted's response to the summer consultation on short inspections, which proposed changes to make the conversion process more manageable.

The legal bases upon which data is processed are also being modernised, but where a school is processing data pursuant to an established purpose enshrined in law, it is unlikely to change much, though the new legal bases have been developed to support existing and proposed data use more clearly.