Sentences with phrase «public interest group when»

In Negin's words, «They're presenting themselves as a neutral, fact - based public interest group when they're not.»

The article quotes Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists who says, «They're presenting themselves as a neutral, fact - based public interest group when they're not.»

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Macquarie Group client investment manager David Kiely provided a financial community primer for what not do to in public view when he clicked on an e-mail containing racy GQ photos of Kerr as his colleague Martin Lakos appeared Tuesday on the country's Seven Network TV, to discuss the central bank's surprise decision to keep interest rates unchanged.

When the State Department considers who it will appoint to international conferences that deal with such matters, it consistently turns to the representatives of the communication industry rather than to knowledgeable representatives from public interest groups.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

Certainly environmental groups are trying to reinvigorate interest in climate change, at a time when the general public in many Western countries is climate change - weary.

It is insult added to injury when an official succeeds in defending themselves and then has the state reimburse their campaign fund, which can then be used for anything they want,» said Blair Horner, director of New York State Public Interest Research Group.

Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group said when negotiations like those on procurement reform are conducted out of public view, bad decisions can bePublic Interest Research Group said when negotiations like those on procurement reform are conducted out of public view, bad decisions can bepublic view, bad decisions can be made.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

«When they know they're not running, they should wrap them up within months of ending their political careers,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a government watchdog.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

«The thing that's worked well when you have ethics boils down to two words — Preet Bharara,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Earlier in the day, the New York Public Interest Research Group urged reporters to include more neutral - sounding language on the casino amendment and use a more critical eye when reporting on the topic.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Cuomo's ethics plan has some good elements, but will only be successful if he tries to rally public support like he did when successfully pushing for a $ 15 minimumPublic Interest Research Group, said Cuomo's ethics plan has some good elements, but will only be successful if he tries to rally public support like he did when successfully pushing for a $ 15 minimumpublic support like he did when successfully pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage.

«When it comes to judges, they should be Caesar's wife,» said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, a good - government advocate that has no position on the proposition.

Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says when negotiations like those on procurement reform are conducted out of public view, bad decisions can bePublic Interest Research Group, says when negotiations like those on procurement reform are conducted out of public view, bad decisions can bepublic view, bad decisions can be made.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says real change will happen only if Cuomo himself makes a strong push, as the governor did when he successfully won passage of an increased minimum wage and partial paid family leave in the new budget.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

In a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencies.

A recent report by the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) took a close look at how companies weigh some of the non-driving related factors when they provide price quotes to consumers.

But I suppose that is a rather insignificant observation when you look at what New York Public Interest Group's Bill Mahoney has to say about the proposed maps as a whole.He says, the Senate's maps are, «clearly the most gerrymandered lines in recent New York History.»

Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said he was glad to see rank - and - file members of both chambers talking about ethics, in contrast to what he called «the cricket sounds that we've hearing over the past few weeks when it comes to ethics — no RV driving around the state, no town meetings about ethics.»

But when one of the commissioners asked the New York Public Interest Research Group's Bill Mahoney if that was the most important thing, Mahoney said no.

Worried about a «tsunami» of e-waste when new TV standards take effect on February 17, e-waste public interest groups the Basel Action Network (BAN) and the Electronics Take Back Coalition have launched a new program that will independently audit and certify electronics recyclers.

Industry's success with the Data Quality Act is now being imitated by a few public - interest groups, including some confronting the Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to list species as endangered when the data argue otherwise.

Some of them are listed below: • The possibility to upload video content to your profile; • A fetish checklist and kinky search, so you can easily find your favorite; • The presence of live chat and live webcams, a rarity when it comes to such types of couples websites; • You can find a group and join it based on your interests, and you can also start a group as well, which will gather persons with the same preferences; • There are filtering options for the displayed content, when you are accessing ALT.com in public areas;

«The Cartel» really took on the notion that public education in America operates solely and purposefully «for the kids,» and it showed exactly what can go wrong when you are consistently first or second in school spending every year (as New Jersey is) and lots of interest groups have placed the economic advancement and security of the adults above the kids.

Federal and state policymakers sometimes embrace high standards and quality assessments in principle, but when they experience intense pressure from interest groups and the public, their support is likely to falter.

Mr. Castelli's next group of stars — Lichtenstein, Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Mr. Rosenquist — attracted unheard of public interest, particularly when his gallery exhibited Lichtenstein's fanciful takeoffs on comic strips and Warhol's paintings of consumer icons like Campbell's soup cans and Coca - Cola bottles.

The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Copublic interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola CoPublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.

One technic we use in security / public / tax policy to check their robustness is the folowing: «imagine that someone just want to break what you plan»... no reason, no interest... just silly evilness... how will he do... and start an ocean 11 plot... when the plot is set, just check if it is possible... in the case of climate, or fukushima like scenario it would be an evil divinity, a crasy group...

However, when scientists attempt to engage a larger public to share their mounting concern, they frequently see the broader announcements of their findings either truncated, or squelched, or lost in the shuffle, or manipulated, distorted, and exploited for political gain or financial self - interest by elected officials, private sector groups and NGO's.

This hearing comes at a time when there is burgeoning diverse and bipartisan support for ending anonymous companies in the U.S. Major financial institutions, national security experts, law enforcement organizations, anti-human trafficking groups and public interest organizations have all endorsed legislation that would require the disclosure of the real people who own American companies.

When the result indicates that climate change is proceeding more slowly rather than faster the climate scientists are more worried that the finding «could be exploited by interest groups» and «misinterpreted in public» — though the latter difference is not significant.

When one environmental public interest group called a university professor to speak in opposition to the proposals based on his belief that development of this nature is inimical to Aboriginal culture, cross examination of this witness by a representative of the Nisichawayasihk Cree illustrated the professor's lack of specific knowledge of the Nisichawayasihk Cree, their culture and their physical environment.20 In the result, his testimony was given little or no weight by the Commission in its report.

It is natural, then, that when last summer a number of cabinet ministers announced the review of four key federal environmental laws, West Coast Environmental Law — along with other lawyers, academics, environmental groups, Indigenous peoples and the general public — took a keen interest.

Sam Glover: I always find that when I'm trying to describe the work that a non profit does, or public policy, public interest group does, I always want to know concretely.

[P] ublic interest groups and the public in general, when given access to these public records, are able to provide the kind of feedback that leads to the correction of these privacy issues.

I do not believe that anyone would seriously argue that when drafting Model Rules, it would be appropriate for the ABA to wear its «trade group» hat and promote the interests of its member lawyers over the interests of clients, the courts, or the public.

The new version was first announced when the Bluetooth Special Interest Group's Mark Powell discussed plans in a public email earlier in June.

I complimented them on their concern for the public's interests, however, all I got is a stammer, long silent pauses, meaningless words of explanation but no substance when I suggested that other big interest groups serving the public such as banks, oil companies, trust companies, insurance companies and the like have certainly not captured their attention as much as CREA.