Sentences with phrase «public reports by»

The findings mark the first public reports by government authorities into what caused some of the dozens of blazes that erupted Oct. 8 and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history.

Legislation that would improve public reporting by railways and allow for financial penalties if they fail to deliver rail cars on time has been stalled in the Senate since the fall.

Not exact matches

Public pension funds are required by the states in which they are domiciled to report on their PE holdings.

Prepared by a coalition of the National Venture Capital Association, Dow Jones VentureSource Database, Rooney & Associates (a New York public relations firm), and DeSantis Breindel (a New York marketing agency), the report seeks to answer a number of questions about the role of «branding» when it comes to the venture capital business.

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.

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

There's no apparent pattern for sexual - misconduct punishment at Yale, based on public reports reviewed by Business Insider.

Yet the gamblers were allowed to play on for weeks, according to reports by the casino's parent company, Bloomberry Resorts Corp., and the Philippine Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations.

Bill Griffeth is co-anchor of «Nightly Business Report,» an award - winning evening business news program produced by CNBC for U.S. public television.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

Employees at several federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture have been barred by the Trump administration from making any statements, or providing any documents to the public or journalists, according to published reports.

Self - reporting and ready co-operation to cure the complaint can be viewed favourably by regulators and the public.

A Number 10 source said the Government was responding to the recommendations of public sector pay review bodies which are currently reporting to ministers «on a case - by - case basis».

A 2010 study conducted by Cone Communications, a public relations and marketing agency focused on social causes, reported that 80 percent of consumers are more likely to purchase a product that supports a cause during the holiday season.

The Post reports that these databases, searchable by any member of the public, will be maintained by local media outlets — with courts providing details of credit defaults, and banking regulators updating banks on the blacklist.

The report noted that the spending by public entities to help Najib's United Malays National Organization stay in power was not illegal but «represented a new milestone in Malaysia's freewheeling electoral system.»

A report by Lloyd's and the University of Cambridge, which studied the insurance implications of a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid, paints a financial, economic and public health nightmare.

A 2004 study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that one in four reports contains an error serious enough to deny you credit or employment.

, an educational gaming platform used by 50 million monthly users in grades K - 12, includes in its new report responses from 580 US teachers, primarily from public schools, who answered questions about technology in their classrooms.

Reports on public opinion compiled by the Nazi secret police often commented on the popularity of Nazi Christmas festivities.

Emails from Iksil to superiors that were later made public in conjunction with the Senate report show he tried to exit the positions he had taken once he realized he was being squeezed by traders taking the opposing positions in the small, illiquid market.

Women, especially those who regarded themselves as single during the study, reported that they felt they were taking more of a risk when sexting, citing that they felt there was a greater chance their messages would be made public, or that they would be rejected by the recipient.

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

When Buffer made its salaries and salary formula public in late 2013, job applications within a 30 - day period increased over the previous 30 days by roughly 229 %, from 1,263 to 2,886, Quartz reported.

Case in point: Mobile e-mail manager Mailbox was acquired last spring by file - sharing service Dropbox for a reported $ 50 million - plus in cash and stock, a mere one month after the Mailbox app was made available to the public.

Combine that with public - sector salary disclosure laws and workers who report their earnings anonymously to online databases compiled by Glassdoor.com and Monster's Salary Wizard, and it starts to seem like the paycheque is becoming less of a secret than it once was.

Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez argue that the statistical and comparative analyses reported in their paper indicate that Internet development is «a complex phenomenon shaped not only by public policy and conditions for entrepreneurship but also by specific contingencies in each country.»

Ota's comments confirmed a report by public broadcaster NHK last week and followed a March 12 admission by the ministry that it had altered documents relating to the land sale.

A country report released by the IMF this month on Japan warned, «Japan's public debt is unsustainable under current policies.»

His public remarks at a coding event aimed at girls, first reported by The Verge, come after a week of controversy sparked by an internal memo written by a Google employee criticising the Californian tech company's diversity policy and arguing biology may be behind the gender divide in tech.

A report released by the Global Public Policy Institute and the Mercator Institute for China Studies, both of which are based in Germany, said Europe's economic ties with China are more important than those it has with Russia, and the stakes associated with calling out Beijing are much higher.

The music arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings plans to go public by the end of the year, in a deal which it could raise between $ 3 billion and $ 4 billion, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, reported.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

The company was said be aiming to file an IPO registration statement by year end so it could go public in 2017, The Information reported last month.

However, The Information reports that Snapchat is looking to file either by the end of this year or early next year, so we could expect a public offering sometime in 2017.

Led by executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Google's chief legal officer David Drummond, the committee recently released a 44 - page report following public meetings held in seven European cities this fall, laying out the criteria and procedure for removing the results.

Sopko wrote that historically, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the government has been falling since his office began reporting on it, while the number controlled or influenced by the insurgents has been rising — «a fact that should cause even more concern about its disappearance from public disclosure and discussion.»

However, C.K. — who confirmed the allegations against him reported by The New York Times — has left the public eye, so it's unknown what he'll do with the movie.

That Amazon Web Services has been pitching its public cloud services to banks, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, is not a shocker.

The results are dismal: The report gave 20 of the 25 companies failing grades for not effectively responding to a «growing public health threat by publicly adopting policies restricting routine antibiotic use» in meat.

According to the now (in) famous Kauffman report last year, just 20 % of venture funds generate returns that beat a public - market equivalent by more than 3 %.

She and the authors of the report, «Education to Employment, Designing a System that Works,» call for countries to create the role of «integrator» — a government appointee or someone designated by a public - private partnership, to make sure employers, educators, and students are getting what they need out of the system.

According to the GAO report, public companies with $ 75 million or less in market capitalization paid a median of $ 1.14 in audit fees for every $ 100 in revenue under the act, compared to just 13 cents for every $ 100 by companies with over $ 1 billion in market capitalization.

«Either it is a sign that Sarbanes - Oxley created a burden on entrepreneurship, inefficiently forcing companies out of the public markets, or alternatively it provided some protection to investors by inducing smaller firms that should never have been public to begin with to abandon that status,» Eric Talley, the report's co-author, said in a statement.

In the first year of implementation, the propensity of small public companies to be purchased by private firms, which are not subject to the act, increased by 53 %, the report said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotify's first quarterly report as a public held company struck the wrong note with investors, even though its music - streaming service hit the subscriber - growth target set by management just before its stock began trading.