Sentences with phrase «public enterprises from»

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And if it follows in the footsteps of another enterprise software IPO winner, Workday, an enterprise software - as - a-service provider whose stock popped from $ 28 to $ 50 on its first day of trading in early October and is now at $ 55, more such start - ups will go public in 2013.

Men may die without incurring the pity of their fellows, sharers in great business enterprises from which their capital can not be, or has not been withdrawn, upon which is left entirely a trust for public uses.

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

And internationally, debt - ridden economies are subject to pressure from inter-governmental institutions such as the IMF and European Central Bank to impose fiscal austerity on their labor force, cut back public spending and even sell off public enterprises.

Carl C. Icahn, Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P., intends to use the web site www.carlicahn.com (and communications to its members), as well as Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and the web site www.shareholderssquaretable.com (and communications to its members), from time to time to communicate with the public about Icahn Enterprises L.P. and other issues.

Furthermore, the higher debt stock is also vulnerable to potential crystallization of contingent liabilities arising from the public sector, which includes the recapitalization of weak public sector banks or state - owned enterprises.

In numerous ways — from the Oaktree buyout to the buying up of enterprises with which his former company was involved to the $ 2.7 million leasing of private jet service for his own use — Ferro acts more like a privately owned company chairman / CEO than one heading a single - class public company.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

Michael Novak has just retired from the George Frederick Jewett chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and is a member of the editorial board of First Things.

Two years ago, with the No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series purring nicely along and various other literary enterprises keeping his name before the public, McCall Smith found time and energy to inaugurate a new series, centering on Isabel Dalhousie, a character who, we are told, edits the Review of Applied Philosophy from her home in Edinburgh.

Our own country pioneered the development of the vast socialistic enterprise of public education from kindergarten through college.

From being executive chair of a large public company to founding one of the most inspiring agricultural enterprises in the country, Tony Coote...

First there are three critical problems with the structure of our economy - the dominance of government spending on recurrent expenses of a public service which employs only a small percentage of Nigerians; the dominance of our oil and gas sector (and until recently power) by an inefficient and corrupt public sector; and the structure of our financial sector which excludes Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises from financing and has been unable to provide mortgages and housing for the middle class.

One source said a private poll conducted for a commercial enterprise showed Weiner grabbing a significant number of votes from the three top contenders: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

McDonnell is not arguing for «nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy» or other nostrums from the 1980s, but for a «mixed economy of public and social enterprise... a private sector with a long - term private business commitment» and a national investment bank channeling # 500 million into the productive economy.

Following a Newsday story last week that detailed how the district attorney's office failed to prosecute apparent public corruption, drug activity and an armed robbery during an extensive wiretap investigation into Macedonio, County Executive Steve Bellone in a news conference accused Spota of leading a «criminal enterprise» and demanded that he step down or be removed from office.

Students from Buffalo Public School # 32 — Bennett Park Montessori and Enterprise Charter School will attend the morning program which is also free and open to the pPublic School # 32 — Bennett Park Montessori and Enterprise Charter School will attend the morning program which is also free and open to the publicpublic.

The soiree at the Loebs» (Michael is founder and CEO of Loeb Enterprises, an investor of media and consumer marketing firms) will have food provided by chefs from the Four Seasons and include such luminaries as Oscar - nominated actress Debra Winger, who left Hollywood because of the difficulties women face there; Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Kathy Cloninger; Elinor Tatum, publisher and editor - in - chief of the Amsterdam News; and New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

By its tripartite nature, the committee is made up of persons from the public sector, (federal and state governments) and the private sector made up of the Nigerian Employers» Consultative Association, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture and Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises.

It required many meetings for almost a year with sometimes countless people in the room from: all levels of government; public benefit corporations from ECIDA, to the Power Authority, to the Water Authority, and Empire State Development; our private sector partners like land owners — Tecumseh, Gateway and South Buffalo Railway; from Welded Tube; a lot of help from organizations like the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise and Partnership; and, then about 5 layers of lawyers in between.

«This bill will ensure that building owners benefiting from public subsidies do not undercut private enterprise by paying wages below the predominant private - sector rate.

The move is in response to a 2009 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, which concluded that cats and dogs acquired from such places were not critical for biomedical research, and that using them could damage the reputation of the research enterprise with the public.

Kass left the council in September and currently is a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, where his office is a few paces from Lynne Cheney's.

The latest evidence of this comes from a fascinating public opinion survey by the Los Angeles Times and the American Enterprise Institute, a right - of - center think tank.

Unique research resources developed with funds from the Award must be made available rapidly to the research community after publication, in order to advance the research enterprise and to accelerate the development of products and knowledge that are of benefit to the public.

Entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Bloggin» Mamas, Heather Lopez Enterprises, LLC, Florida Prepaid, Moore Communications, Twitter, and any other organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting this giveaway, and their respective parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors, members, employees, agents and subcontractors (collectively the «Released Parties») from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to a participant's entry, creation of an entry or submission of an entry, participation in this giveaway, acceptance or use or misuse of prize.

Last month, Nat Malkus of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published a study on the trends in Advanced Placement course offerings in public schools from 2000 to 2012.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

His experience ranges from public sector, to small businesses to large enterprises.

Their schools are labeled «public,» but this is a name hijacked from more democratic state enterprises to which all have access.

Greenway has received support from public agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Los Angeles, but it has staked its continuance year - to - year on private enterprise.

It also contains first - person analysis from commentary contributors, such as Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and Teaching Ahead: A Roundtable, an interactive project developed by Education Week Teacher and the Center for Teaching Quality and featuring teacher - led discussions on America's public schools.

They in turn have often tried to replace veteran administrators with executives plucked from other private and public sector enterprises.

In fact, how we fund public K — 12 is very different from how we fund higher education (or any other public enterprise in our society).

Business leaders in the United States say they can't find enough educated or qualified workers due in part to the growing numbers of college students leaving school before earning their degrees, according to new research from Civic Enterprises, a D.C. public policy firm.

A survey of leaders from private and public sectors found that creativity is viewed as the «single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through... complexity.»

It will welcome bids from a range of groups including teachers, charities, local authorities, social enterprises, public sector organisations and co-operatives.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

Malloy's corporate support came from political action committees including, Aetna, Alcoa, Alexion, American Medical Response, AQN, AT&T, Bank of America, Boehringer Ingelheim, CBS, Cerner Corporation, Cigna, Comcast, Computer Sciences Corporation, Covanta Energy, Dominion Energy, Enterprise Holding, FoxPAC (Yes, related to the Fox News Corp.), General Dynamics, General Electric, GHC Corporation, Guardian, Hartford Financial, HNTB Holdings, Maximus, Minerals Technologies Inc., National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Northeast Utilities, Pfizer, Pitney Bowes, Praxair, Public Service of New Jersey, Purdue Pharma, Reinsurance Association of America, Safelite, Spectra Energy, Synergy, Nestle Waters, The Phoenix, The Travelers, Walt Disney Productions, Thermo Fischer Scientific, UnitedHealth, Wal - Mart, Walgreens, Webster Bank, Wellpoint, Xerox and the list goes on.

We took the contributions by Larry Cuban (from Stanford University), Matthew DiCarlo (the Shanker Institute), Anna Egalite (North Carolina State University), Rick Hess and Paige Wiley (the American Enterprise Institute), Ashley Jochim (the Center for Reinventing Public Education), Matthew Ladner (the Charles Koch Institute), Megan Tompkins - Stange (the University of Michigan), Martin West (Harvard University), and Daniel Willingham (the University of Virginia) and boiled it down to three trade - offs and three lessons.

Over time, the United States» public education system has evolved from a fundamentally locally - driven enterprise to one that reflects broader goals of ensuring equality of opportunity for individuals and the country's global economic competitiveness.

A vote at last night's public meeting saw the approval of charter parents from Enterprise Charter School and Westminster Community Charter School - charters authorized by the Buffalo Board of Education.

In selecting communities to participate in the program, the statute requires DOT to give priority to those communities where (a) average air fares are higher than the air fares for all communities; (b) a portion of the cost of the activity contemplated by the community is provided from local, non-airport-revenue sources; (c) a public - private partnership has been or will be established to facilitate air carrier service to the public; (d) improved service will bring the material benefits of scheduled air transportation to a broad section of the traveling public, including businesses, educational institutions, and other enterprises whose access to the National air transportation system is limited (e) the assistance will be used in a timely fashion; and, (f) multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.

From 1988 - 2008, Christie was Chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises, Inc., making her the longest serving female CEO of a U.S. public company.

«Over the last few years, the shift in consumer expectations from print to digital is not to be ignored,» said Vailey Oehlke, president - elect of the ALA's Public Library Association division, to The Press Enterprise.

Cisco has been positioning its upcoming Cius tablet as an enterprise device, but if a new TV spot from the company is anything to go by, it may soon be available to the general public as well.

My motivation for these past 40 years as the editor - in - chief of this enterprise derives from my life - long love of books, the personal importance libraries have played in my life, and the continued expressions of appreciation and support I receive from librarians, booksellers, authors, publishers, and the general reading public.

Featuring works by the American post-pop artist Rob Pruitt, the long - term exhibition Rob Pruitt 50th Birthday Bash opened to the public on May 10th, concurrent with the artist's birthday month, bringing together artworks from the Brant collection as well as loans from Gavin Brown's Enterprise.

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»