Sentences with phrase «public crisis of»

Roger Hiorns, whose sculptures have housed bovine brain matter and fungus - like accretions of beguiling, decaying blue crystals, cites BSE as a tipping point of a public crisis of confidence in the ruling elite.
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.
Like the public crises of the past, these events manifested distress and hope, failure and transcendence, rupture and kinship.

Not exact matches

His books can alter the way the public thinks about and conceives of entire worlds, from baseball management to football pass protection to the subprime mortgage crisis.
«Delta was bold and quite strategic,» said Eric Schiffer, CEO of Reputation Management Consultants, an online service that handles public relations crises, which has not worked with Delta.
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.
Kapoor's arrest comes a day after President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency and nearly a year after former Insys CEO Michael Babich and five other onetime executives were arrested as part of an alleged «nationwide conspiracy.»
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.
According to Bob Reid, chief media strategist with Veritas Communications in Toronto, News Corp. has failed to observe the «holy trinity» of crisis communications: being honest with the public regarding 1.
Lately, though, this game has lost all its fun and taken on the urgency of a public - health crisis.
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.
Yet while Subway is happy to have Fogle pose with his old, tent - like pants at press events, it suffered a minor public relations crisis when news circulated that he'd regained some of his former girth.
News Corp. is not the first organization to face a public relations nightmare, but it seems unwilling or unable to learn from the lessons of previous crises.
In America, where there have been six mass shootings in the first two months of 2018, finding new ways to prevent gun deaths has not only become a public crisis, but a potent business opportunity.
«It might take US$ 2 trillion,» he says, but only half of that needs to come from the public sector because the private sector has been de-risking, not deleveraging as it had to do during the previous crisis.
Questions are also being asked about the practices of McKesson and its peers by Congress, where the dire public health crisis is increasingly top of mind.
Even if a company doesn't know all the facts, and even if its investigation is ongoing, it needs to reassure the public that it understands the severity of the problem and their concerns, and that it has the crisis under control.
Khosrowshahi took over in August from Uber co-founder Kalanick, assuming the daunting task of mending the company's public image, repairing frayed investor relations and rebuilding employee morale after a string of crises.
But finding solutions to the freelance retirement crisis shouldn't just be in the hands of the public sector.
Trying to go public during the financial crisis was like being a public company without any of the benefits of being public: briefing analysts on a quarterly basis, reporting financials — all the encumbrances of public company but none of the financial benefit.
Johnson & Johnson was lauded in its response to the crisis, but this occurred in the days before social media, the Internet, and 24 - hour cable news, when careful consideration as to the tone and content of public communication could be timed to a daily, weekly, or monthly news cycle.
The events in Charlottesville have triggered a public and widespread crisis of faith in the president's ability and judgment.
The case went to the heart of the financial crisis, he said, and the public deserved to know more.
Australia's latest political crisis, the potential dumping next week of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, is masking a far greater threat to the country — a fresh outbreak of the GFC caused by the dramatic build - up of private and public debt.
Basic policies cover incident response, public relations, legal fees, digital forensics (to find the source of the hack), customer notification, and crisis communication.
Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).
For now, Facebook said its crowdfunding feature will only be available to raise money for six causes: education expenses, medical bills, medical procedures for pets, public crisis relief, personal emergencies like an accident or fire, and costs related to the death of a loved one.
It sounds sensible, but it's just the other side of the platinum coin: Both options would overstep Congress» power to control the strings of the public purse and likely trigger a constitutional crisis and endless lawsuits.
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.
Since Thiel's credibility as a public intellectual is built in part on the presumed validation imparted by his financial success, the financial crisis of 2008 posed a threat to everything he had created.
«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.
All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).
One of the best weapons in fighting reputational damage from a crisis is arming people with the facts and the web gives you an unfiltered way to provide the facts to the public.
Its self - belief — and that of its citizens, businesses and investors — is slowly recovering but the scars from the crisis, such as unemployment and high public debt, remain.
Until a few days ago, the narrative around the Greece crisis was that the damn Greeks should just pay their taxes, repay their debt, and get rid of some of the crazy public spending policies that cosset its citizens.
«The opioid crisis is a threat to public safety when it involves safety - sensitive employees involved in the operation of any kind of vehicle or transport,» Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a release.
By not telling the truth, the media and public will continue to seek it out, thus prolonging the public attention and exposure of a crisis.
This public relations crisis was likely one of the culprits behind the franchise's deflating bottom line.
You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.
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.
Monti was widely credited with tightening Italy's public finances and restoring its international credibility after the scandal - plagued Berlusconi, whom he replaced as the 2011 financial crisis threatened to spin out of control.
The UK's Brexit vote is also one of the most potent signs that the public is increasingly dissatisfied with politicians and the current migration crisis.
After both previous major crises — when private and public debt levels were relatively high — slower debt growth, selective debt re-structuring and a long period of reflation have been the solution.
Since no one has been heard to suggest that the funds acted out of sheer public - spiritedness during the crisis, it seems safe to assume that they were buying on Monday because their managers had spotted bargains, and were selling on Thursday because of chances to cash in on profits.
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Counterpunch Today's deepening financial and economic crisis can not be alleviated without addressing a number of problems that the public does not really want to hear about.
BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.
At the height of the crisis, AIG became a symbol for excessive Wall Street risk - taking and a touchstone for public anger.
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.
Parkland, Florida, are «crisis actors» is only the latest example of how social media can poison public discourse.
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