Sentences with phrase «public crisis for»

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Wilson ignited a public relations crisis for the company in November by suggesting to Bloomberg TV that Lululemon's yoga pants don't work well for some women.

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

Moreover, if their constituents are largely indifferent to the brewing public health crisis, there is little incentive for members of Congress to cut short their vacations and return to Washington to take long - overdue action.

And it's certainly not the kind of promotion a CEO of a public company typically leaves his job for, as Papa did, especially for a crisis situation like Valeant in need of a rescue.

But further analysis released by the public health agency Friday highlight two alarming trends for U.S. mortality: significant rises in gun and, especially, drug overdose deaths (with the latter driven by the ongoing opioid crisis in America).

But the new chair's own public speeches and comments throughout the past year have shown an evolving faith that the Fed's go - slow approach can continue, giving more time for workers to rebound from the 2007 - 2009 crisis without creating other economic risks.

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Facebook announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday that encouraged users to adopt the new feature in order to raise money through the social network for anything from medical procedures to relief in the wake of a public crisis or natural disaster.

Puerto Rico is grappling with the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history, with both its government and the public utility having filed for bankruptcy protection amid fights with creditors.

For example, China is especially vulnerable to locally isolated social unrest, environmental disasters, and public health crises.

And by making a corporation the public face of shame for the crisis, the U.S. government can hang on to its record of not having criminally charged one single Wall Street exec for the crisis.

We'll talk to him about what's next at the FDA, including his vision for attacking the opioid crisis and his plans to balance public safety with faster drug approvals.

At the height of the crisis, AIG became a symbol for excessive Wall Street risk - taking and a touchstone for public anger.

She has previously worked as a public health educator and crisis counselor at Washington, DC nonprofits, and as an ESL teacher for primary school & university students, as well as working adults.

He has ignored the CEO playbook for a company that faces a crisis of public trust: He does not grovel, he does not evince embarrassment at the size of the lapse.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

The crisis, which has affected every level of government in the state, is a cautionary tale for not only public spending run amok but also independent investors taking too large of a risk by seeking high yields.

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

Social Media Success Policy Template The hyper - speed and incredible reach of modern social media makes for uncharted territory that many companies are still floundering with, when it comes to what can and can not be said to avoid legal liabilities, how to handle a crisis in the public eye, and standard procedures and guidelines for creating the kind of culture you want on all your social channels.

As Europe's banking crisis deepens, Greece's and Spain's fiscal crisis spreads throughout Europe and the US economy stalls, most discussions of how to stabilize national finances assume that only two options are available: «internal devaluation» — shrinking the economy by cutting public spending; or outright devaluation of the currency (for countries that have not yet joined the euro, such as Eastern Europe).

Earlier this month the Economist ran a leader (editorial) Â and longer article asking and then largely answering who should for the costs of the economic crisis (public services and workers of course!).

Just before the crisis, the demand for Fed liabilities consisted mainly of the public's demand for paper dollars, about $ 800 billion of which were outstanding.

«This is what the government is supposed to do — respond when there's a crisis, provide for the safety of the public,» Green said.

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But Canadian public - sector workers, who are even less responsible for the crisis, are expected to make a monetary contribution to addressing its consequences.

A more cynical view, though, would be that the Liberals are waiting for the crisis to become a more public disgrace that necessitates intervention.

PSAC has produced educational tools for our members and the wider public on the global warming crisis and the importance of acting now.

The reality of the pension crisis was underlined again last week when the board of the largest $ 330 + billion US public pension plan, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalLPERS), voted to shorten its period for amortizing future investment losses from 30 years to 20 public pension plan, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalLPERS), voted to shorten its period for amortizing future investment losses from 30 years to 20 Public Employees Retirement System (CalLPERS), voted to shorten its period for amortizing future investment losses from 30 years to 20 years.

The size of Illinois» pension crisis requires even bolder pension reform that includes 401 (k)- style plans for public employees.

It was a stunning fall from grace for Law and a rare step for the church, which deeply resists public pressure but could no longer do so given the scope of the crisis.

It looks to me that it was the economy that «carterized» Carter and that the patriotic public reaction to the hostage crisis hid Carter's underlying weakness for several months.

Naomi Klein, in her book Shock Doctrine, suggests that governments will use this for selfish ends, i.e.: create the crisis to change the mind of the public.

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In 1977 the chief counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, the late John Baker, warned of a coming crisis for the church over the issue of property taxation.

With the controversy over the site and substance of his proposed Islamic center now spanning the globe, the imam is relying on an informal cabinet of faith - based advisors, many of them Christian and Jewish, for crisis management advice and moral support during the most difficult public crisis of his life.

As the AIDS crisis enveloped Africa, Western nations generously pressed the snappy acronym «ABC» — Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom — as a strategy for education and public health.

But the crisis falls even more immediately and heavily upon public officials, for the new regime orders them to do what they ought not to do, and not to do what they ought to do.

Jenna Oltersdorf is PR principal and crisis management expert at Snackbox, the Austin, Texas - based creative public relations and digital marketing laboratory that combines design thinking and the art of storytelling to deliver spectacular results for a wide range of national clients.

AFSA supports the combined call by the Public Health Association of Australia, Red Cross and Dietitians Association of Australia for increased resourcing of nutrition and food supply strategies to respond to this crisis.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming environmental crisis.

Terminator technologies for synthetic biology, GM crops for agrofuels, geoengineering and all of the other false solutions to the energy, climate and food crises enclose vast genetic resources and agrobiodiversity, taking them out of the public realm and into the control of TNCs, especially the US Big Biotech giants Monsanto, Dupont and Arborgen.

The United Nations recently recognised the threat of these non-communicable diseases as a global public health crisis, and called for decisive preventative action from government leaders.

While plastic has dominated the public agenda for some time, the food waste crisis continues to percolate, with the latest report from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) showing that household food waste actually increased by 4.4 per cent from 2012 to 2015.

While plastic has dominated the public agenda for some time, the food waste crisis continues to percolate, with the

This book attempts to get a handle on the obesity crisis in America and offers public policy initiatives for reversing the trend.

Because of the ongoing boycott against Nestle and the constant bad publicity it receives because of the baby bottle crisis, the company is very concerned with creating a positive public image for itself.

These are no minor steps for the Iranian government, which despite being ideological in its public language, tends to be cooperative at a regional level, particularly in periods of crises (e.g. Afghanistan 2001; Kuwait 1990 - 91).

«Once again the public sector is being made to pay for the crisis caused by the banking sector,» Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotkapublic sector is being made to pay for the crisis caused by the banking sector,» Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark SerwotkaPublic and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Of course, that you know the true character of a person, when in crisis, is as true now as it was in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the 1954 novel in which the best of British public school boys (metaphor for the best of western civilization) descended into feral brutes, just because they were marooned in a strange environment for a few days.