Sentences with phrase «public environment for»

We must work proactively to establish norms and standards of behavior that create a positive public environment for everyone.

Not exact matches

Politicians ask the public to accept sacrifice (new taxes, new regulations) in exchange for a happy conclusion (lower public debt, a clean environment).

Tom Mulcair's recent article for the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) raises perhaps more questions than it answers about the NDP's positions on the economics of energy and the environment.

Environment takes into account both physical and emotional factors, and the average number of hours worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different factors including travel, deadlines, and interaction with the public.

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.

With congestion a problem for cities all over the world, could making public transport free ease gridlock and help the environment?

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.

Ma Jun, who is the director of Beijing - based non-profit organization Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs told CNBC that it's become very difficult for the government to either cover up or use «too much» force to stop mass protests over China's deteriorating environment.

His confirmation for the role awaits a vote of the full Senate after an unusual and ultimately unsuccessful boycott by Democratic Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee.

But for those who oppose fracking, there is this: Burning the natural gas produced by fracking may be much better for the environment and public health, over the long run, than burning coal.

But while the systematic patterns of public policy don't always matter in the development of the Internet, Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez discover that conditions for entrepreneurship, such as the ability to raise capital and whether or not the environment is risk - free, do have a consistent effect.

Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

Polman sides with those who argue that the tyranny of quarterly goals traps public companies into continually trying to drive up share prices for investors, while downgrading more long - term, complicated missions, like improving working conditions and the environment.

«Right now the environment for taking risk is cautionary for prospective and existing franchisees,» said Matt Haller, the IFA's vice president of public affairs.

Public water fluoridation is really just a secret way for chemical companies to dump the dangerous byproducts of phosphate mines into the environment.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield and Ted Menzies, the Minister of State for Finance, have asked to be kept out of cabinet, while former Public Safety minister Vic Toews has resigned and Environment Minister Peter Kent has signalled he expects to be frozen out.

As Scott explains, they «contain 30 or more chapters providing special protections for foreign investors; extending patents and copyrights; privatizing markets for public services such as education, health, and public utilities; and «harmonizing» regulations in ways that limit or prevent governments from protecting the public health or environment.»

The U.S. Department of Education previously said it was providing $ 1 million to the Broward County Public Schools to help costs of education related for schools that have had their learning environments disrupted.

Eligible teachers must work in a low - income public elementary or secondary school, and they must have worked in that environment consecutively for the last five years.

One of the few issues on which most economists agree is the need for public policy to protect the environment.

The organization focuses on five key areas for creating lasting change: Public Health, Environment, Education, Government Innovation and the Arts.

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

From now until the end of April, B.C.'s environment ministry is asking for public comments on their proposed spill regulations.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

Organizations that procure cybersecurity services are increasingly looking not just for private cloud - based approaches, but products that operate from public cloud environments, says Larry Hurtado, CEO of Digital Defense.

In sum, what started last April with a call to action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a public interest campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.

Investing for impact in public equities can include divesting from companies considered harmful to the environment, as embodied by 350.org's fossil fuel divestment campaign.

Each forum seeks to develop recommendations for government and private action to improve the environment for small business capital formation, consistent with other public policy goals, including investor protection.»

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

But the argument over the motive for Cochran's firing and its effect on civil and religious liberties obscures a deeper disagreement over Christian conceptions of sin and the consequences of those ideas in a public work environment.

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

Think freedom, think environment, think any public good that we take for granted and that humanity has learned to cherish, honor and protect by our example.

It seemed that perhaps public education could leave room for the transcendent after all, that the religious dimension of the human experience might not be curtailed in the right environment.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

What we gain — a safer environment from a public - health point of view, for example — should demonstrably outweigh what we lose.

For an economic system to be responsible it is also necessary that it include adequate public health and safety regulations to ensure that industrial practices do not endanger employees or the present or future public welfare, and also that it provide adequate protection of the natural environment.

The trend towards digitization goes together with political and industrial pressures to shift from public - service type information and telecommunication services to a competitive environment for the trading of these services by private market operators.

We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.

Living in justice in this world as a good steward of God's bounty, maintaining privacy and yet caring for every legitimate public need, removing every vestige of exploitation, protecting the environment for today's and tomorrow's generations, and being honest in every individual transaction, all of these are covered when we push the Commandment «You shall not steal» into the very depths of our complicated and complex lives.

Science and Spirituality are compatible because they both involve attempts to represent various lines of thought in relationship to the self and the environments that are for public good.

Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»

Given the public's growing awareness of environmental peril, the historical moment for the Earth Summit is right, as is linking development and environment.

Through our programs and public - private partnerships, we engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community's environment.

«Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel will decide Monday, September 27 whether the first genetically engineered food animal proposed for public consumption will be safe to eat and safe for the environment.