Sentences with phrase «public outing on»

Mikkola gave the car its first public outing on the Algarve rally in 1980, when it acted as the course car.

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Leader - Chivée also recommends that companies be willing to go out and be public with valid claims, so the perpetrators go on to new jobs, with NBC's recent move to dismiss Matt Lauer swiftly as one example to follow.

It's encouraging to hear BlackRock (blk) CEO Larry Fink — whose company's $ 4 trillion of assets under management make it the 800 - pound gorilla in public markets — decry the short - term focus of many investors and call on companies to lay out a «strategic framework for long - term value creation.»

The public broadcaster went out of its way on Monday to clarify that commentator Cokie Roberts has more leeway to make personal comments than the usual NPR staffer does because Roberts co-authored a newspaper column labeling Donald Trump as «one of the least - qualified candidates ever to make a serious run for the presidency.»

Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the public about the evolution of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving out abuse of prisoners and other unsavory aspects of the criminal justice system.

Ottawa's hawkish stance appears increasingly at odds with public opinion, creating an opening for politicians willing to come out on the legalization side.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Public attention is about to be grabbed by the rapid evolution of the auto dashboard, as carmakers and tech giants work out bringing to the car the Internet experience consumers have gotten used to on their smartphones.

Along with four friends on the show, LaCola helps brain storm products and businesses that the group tests out and sometimes launches to the public.

Prince William recently ended his job as an ambulance helicopter pilot in order to focus more on royal duties as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip ease out of public life.

Part of your brand is you — if you are out in the public with a shirt or vehicle with your company logo on it then go by the same rules as any other company would.

Don't be afraid to get out there and show your face to the public, whether at a conference or just being out and about with friend on a Friday night.

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

(Block points out Sino - Forest went public through a reverse takeover on the Toronto Venture Exchange long before the current wave of companies.)

Virtually none of the game players started out with more than a couple of certified public accountants, M.B.A.'s, and other financial sophisticates on their payrolls.

Because of these common misconceptions about pricing on the part of the buying public, don't be surprised that some of your customers think you are Jack the Ripper when they find out about your markup.

«This is really about helping large media companies grow even bigger,» said Democratic FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, adding that Republicans were «more intent on granting the industrys holiday wish list early rather than looking out for the public interest.»

As a recent client note from BNP Paribas pointed out last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out the bank's strategy on «threats to financial stability» quite neatly in his latest public address.

If we can rely on a bank's selection process and its commitment to carry out an initial public offering, that helps convince us.

Kay Swinburne MEP, the most senior British legislator on the EU's influential Economic and Monetary Committee, told Business Insider: «I don't think there's anything that's come out that isn't already in the public domain in one form or another.

The goal is to take the uncertainty out of public transport commuting and so reduce people's reliance on cars.

It would have been easy to dismiss her challenge, but now that I'm a published author, now that Bodies on the Potomac is out there in the public domain being read by friends and family and strangers alike, I realize that listening to a respected friend's advice might be the catalyst others can use to break through.

The state's peak business body has called for reforms to the penalty rates system, which it says is out of date and causes many Western Australian businesses that open on Sundays and public holidays to lose money.

How it all turns out will depend on the appeal — and Shkreli is clearly banking on victory either there — or in the court of public opinion.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

For company leaders who aren't afraid to take a public stance, the survey shows that 51 percent of millennials said they are more likely to buy from a company whose CEO spoke out an issue they agree with, and 44 percent of full - time millennial employees said they would be more loyal to their organization if their CEO took a public position on an issue.

What's more, a white paper out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options go, and miss out on the future windfall when that start - up goes public or is acquired at a good price.

The PSLF, established by President George W. Bush in 2007, allows student loan borrowers who pursue government or non-profit public service jobs to wipe out their remaining debt after 10 years of on - time payments.

If the negative feedback has been left on a public review website, it's important to immediately reach out to the customer both publicly and privately to offer a resolution.

These outfits have been largely hoisted on their own financial petards and now they can't figure out a way to get their deals out the door and sell their story to the public suckers without the embarrassment of a downward valuation when the underwriters actually start writing the deal book; and (3) They're already a dead dog, living on borrowed time.

Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

Steve Goldstein, the department's under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, confirmed on Tuesday that Tillerson found out about his own firing from Trump's tweet announcing it, and that Tillerson was «unaware of the reason» for his dismissal, which he had not discussed with Trump.

On the public front, I think it's important to call out that kind of discrimination forcefully and with no ambiguity.

So far the Apple v. FBI debate has played out at the very highest level, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI Director James Comey trading public barbs on the whether privacy trumps national security or vice versa.

At the same time, as people increasingly consume magazine content online on their phones or on social media sites while out in public, Playboy readers objected to pornographic photos considered NSFW: Not Suitable For Work.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

We've got some legislation out there, but I think the public is going to have a phenomenal impact on this whole issue.

Not to mention that they could appear a touch weird purposely snoozing in public, maybe with the exception of crashing out in one on a plane, a train or a bus.

March 25 - Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt - cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure for greater gun control.

That's fine but still leaves the looming threat of Amazon's public cloud out on the horizon.

Richard Laermer, author of Trendspotting: Think Forward, Get Ahead, and Cash In on the Future (Perigree) and president of RLM Public Relations Inc. in Los Angeles, points out other categories:

While smart watches or other pieces of wearable technology are interesting concepts, the issue lies in getting a whole lot of people to see why they need these devices — and why on earth they'd be caught dead wearing them out in public.

Oracle has said it runs its data centers on Oracle Exadata servers, which are turbocharged machines that differ fundamentally from the bare - bones servers that other public cloud providers deploy by the hundreds of thousands in what is called a scale - out model.

Although members of The People's Vote are quick to point out that they're asking for a different kind of vote, pro-Brexit leaders in the Conservative party, which controls the government, say the public doesn't want to vote on Brexit again.

Butterfield's public rant was unusual for two reasons: First, he's a CEO, and high - level executives rarely speak out on hot - button issues out of fear they'll alienate customers.

Thanks to pioneering journalism and stigma - busting public discussion of mental health issues by members of the entrepreneurship community, the toll starting a business can take on your mental health and the seemingly high prevalence of struggles with depression among founders are starting to come out in the open.

Google, in comparison, is testing out cars rated «level three,» meaning that humans are sometimes needed to take the wheel, on public roads in the United States.

That works out to about $ 3 billion of added market value a year, on average, for the titan of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, which went public in 2002 in an $ 82.5 million offering.