Sentences with phrase «public backing at»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

As the chart shows, this is the weakest business investment recovery since at least the early 1980s, which is as far back as Statistics Canada keeps comparable public data.

A year after its initial public offering, we look back at the social media giant's highs and lows as a public company.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

Back in September 2007, for instance, Blackstone took a $ 3 billion investment from the China Investment Corp. in exchange for a 10 % stake, valuing the company at $ 30 billion shortly before Blackstone listed shares on the public market.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

With approval rating in the low teens just five months into her second term, Rousseff's also struggling to win back the public trust amid Brazil's biggest corruption investigation, an inquiry into a massive kickback scheme at state - run oil company Petrobras.

At the last review in May 2014, Greece's public debt was assessed to be getting back on a path toward sustainability, though it remained highly vulnerable to shocks.

In January 2017 the EPA published a midterm evaluation of the standards, concluding that they were readily achievable for automakers, would achieve huge benefits for the public and save consumers money at the pump and should not be rolled back.

• Accidentally spilling food on people at a restaurant I worked at • Burning the chicken at my girlfriend's house, nearly causing us to break up • Accidentally throwing my phone away in a public trash can and having to dive in to get it back

Facebook's stock opened on the public markets at $ 42 per share, but in a disastrous twist, closed its first day back down at its initial $ 38 price.

With domain hosting business GoDaddy set to go public this week, there's no time better than now to take a look back at a slew of Super Bowl ads that had people talking for days after.

Even the thought of taking a public speaking class unnerved him, and he backed out at the last second the first time he signed up.

The average cost of tuition, fees, and room and board sets families back an average of $ 19,000 a year at public four - year colleges and $ 42,000 at private schools, according to the College Board.

They know those contributions might become public at some point, and no company that sells a product wants to risk the kind of consumer reaction that engulfed Target in 2010, after it contributed $ 150,000 to a Minnesota group backing a conservative candidate opposing gay marriage.

If you have a fear of associating with people, you have to go out there and do it, and it's painful... When I was young and completed the [public speaking] course, I was worried I would lapse back... so I started teaching a class at night and, you know, you've got to force yourself to do some things sometimes.»

The company is backed by over 20 years of industry experience and its platform is relied on by accounting and real estate teams at some of the country's largest public and private companies.

-- Brian Solis, authority on emerging media, blogger at PR 2.0, and co-author of Putting the Public Back in Public Relations and Now is Gone

As Forbes editor Randall Lane said, «at a time when corporate America, as a whole, faces low public approval, the companies in the JUST 100 provide an example for their peers on how to win back the trust of the American people.»

The «tough sell to the public» was made tougher by appearing to give dishonest Wall Street executives a free pass by not, at minimum, loudly filing suits attempting to claw back ill - gotten bonuses.

And then we will look to public banking options, and perhaps to Dennis Kucinich's American Monetary Act to turn you commercial banks back into savings banks to stem your wild speculation at the economy's expense.»

Or has the act of making a public appearance at which investors are pitched mean you are already necessarily under 506 (c) and, in the immortal interjection of Gov. Perry, whoops, you'd better have filed your Form D 15 days back already?

We backed the company at every stage and in June 2017, Blue Apron went public (NYSE: APRN).

The California public water agency signed a deal with Tesla's energy storage deployment partner, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, to install Powerpack systems at 11 of its facilities back in 2016.

So far, OPM confirmed that at least 4.2 million current and former federal employees had their sensitive information compromised in cyberattack of its data files back in December, which it made public the beginning of June.

I resigned from my job the next day back at work, with my vision to be a writer and public speaker.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Court documents made public late on Tuesday show that Fresenius (NYSE: FMS) dropped its acquisition of Akorn after uncovering evidence that the generic drug developer submitted fraudulent data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for at least six different drugs dating back to 2012.

Dietary supplements company Herbalife will add two new members to its board of directors at the request of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has backed the company in a public spat with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.

«Looking back now, it is clear to me that all of us that were involved at the time - and certainly myself - should have done more to protect the American public through aggressive regulation, comprehensive regulation,» he said during a grilling by then - Iowa Senator Tom Harkin during his confirmation hearing.

Mr. Cummins later dismissed that criticism back in April in an interview on Public Eye Radio stating, «I guess that's what you'd expect a lobbyist to say who may be looking to get some government money at this point.»

From public pot shots by then chief executive and co-founder Rahul Yadav, directed at the company's investors and board members, which led to his ouster later, to high cash burn, the once revered startup has been struggling to get back on its feet.

At the beginning of the 1960s, when Don was settling back into the Research Department of the Bank after some study at the LSE and a year at the Bank of England, and I had just joined the Public Service, stabilising the cycle was the economic fashioAt the beginning of the 1960s, when Don was settling back into the Research Department of the Bank after some study at the LSE and a year at the Bank of England, and I had just joined the Public Service, stabilising the cycle was the economic fashioat the LSE and a year at the Bank of England, and I had just joined the Public Service, stabilising the cycle was the economic fashioat the Bank of England, and I had just joined the Public Service, stabilising the cycle was the economic fashion.

They snap up struggling publicly traded companies, with the help of some debt financing, spend a few years turning them around by restructuring or shedding businesses and then they sell them back to public stockholders, ideally at a gain.

The initial LA Times report «sparked widespread public outrage,» and so news that some California National Guard troops are receiving a waiver met with positive reaction among the public — but many point to the to repay their student loans, where veterans and soldiers are still being made to pay back their bonuses, since California is the only state given a waiver at this time.

I audited many of the high fliers that crashed and burned, took companies public & was at the printers the day the bubble really burst which ultimately tabled that IPO... Amazon Web Services is growing by leaps and bounds and a significant amount of those $'s are coming from venture backed start - ups.

Before it went public in 2007 at NYSE, VanceInfo was backed by prominent VCs including DCM, Sequoia Capital and Legend Capital.

Shares of First Data traded in a back - and - forth range Thursday at its initial public offering.

Then Fannie and Freddie begin buying back delinquent mortgages, paying off the lenders in full, and taking the losses at public expense.

The public at large is pretty clear and consistent in backing new restrictions on guns.

From my start back in the early nineties I've preached that link building is, at the highest levels, a mix of public relations, marketing, branding, and advertising.

«Right now when you look at [open source blockchain startups such as] Ethereum — these are LGPL [Lesser General Public License] based licences, which means that if you are to use it and use derivative works you have to give it back to the owner.

When Frossard saw John Paul II at the Mass marking the beginning of the pope's public ministry, he wired back to his Paris newspaper, «This is not a pope from Poland; this is a pope from Galilee.»

Faith - based charity Marriage Care has backed the proposals, speaking on Premier's News Hour, chief executive, Mark Molden said: «what this is about is saying, look; at a key moment where public services are in front of both expectant mother and expectant father let's give them some support at that crucial juncture to think about their relationship, think about how they might weather the inevitable storms that a new baby brings into a relation ship.

Here's a look back at 10 of the greatest Christian music videos ever to grace religious TV networks, public access station airwaves or church sanctuaries.

But, somehow, the combination worked» the newsletter transmogrified into The Public Square at the back of every issue, and the quarterly morphed into a monthly analysis of religion and publicPublic Square at the back of every issue, and the quarterly morphed into a monthly analysis of religion and publicpublic life.

You know — every time I see religion debated on a public forum, the whole thing is an exercise in mental futility as both the atheists and even some of the Christians make the same type of mistakes over and over again and just yell back and forth at each other.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

The public face of evangelicalism became most evident in the Billy Graham campaigns, by which the converts made at the mass rallies were redirected back into the denomination of their choice.