Sentences with phrase «public service points»

A new movement is trying to refocus admissions away from purely individual academic achievement and toward something you can't measure with SAT tests or resumes padded with public service points: real concern for others and the common good.

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Here is a timeline of some key points from his career in public service.

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.

In the Bloomberg report, the now public rant pointed fingers at his customer service department because of an increase in canceled orders, which climbed to 17 percent, up from 5 percent.

That comes as long - term investment returns from U.S. public pensions have hit their lowest point in more than a decade and a half, according to Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service.

The $ 80 price point still makes senior passes a steal, said Kathy Kupper, public affairs specialist for the National Park Service.

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.

By contrast, the price point for FiscalNote's software as a service offering starts at around $ 10,000 a year for a nonprofit, and is upward of $ 200,000 for a large private or public company.

The term «public safety answering point» means a facility that has been designated to receive emergency calls and route them to emergency service personnel.

I had one point: unilingual people are unfit for positions of power in the federal public service.

Sven Jurschewsky, another retired Canadian foreign service officer who has headed various departments in the foreign affairs ministry, points to an overall malaise in Canada's public service.

Many public services, like police and fire departments, are headquartered in Memorial Villages even though they serve Piney Point.

Zappos — a customer service pioneer we would be remiss not to address — takes a less mathematical point of view (at least as far as the public eye can discern) to its social customer service dedication.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

It's a public service I do for this bored when I point out the horrible fallacies that you seem to think are truthes.

This point is captured in the very meaning of the word «liturgy»: public work or public service.

Our public services will be pushed to the point of failure and our national security will be greatly weakened as EU open borders expand further still.»

The whole point of taxation was to collect funds to provide services that the general public won't or can't do themselves.

Another point of vulnerability in the system is the industry «s own defensiveness and sense of guilt which sometimes is expressed in management «s desire to produce a few quality programs even at the expense of achieving maximum profits, in order to project a «quality» or public - service image to the populace.

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

Some local public broadcasting stations have a low - cost «broadcast» to points which have special antennas, and they might make this available as a public - service.

We might even reach the point where our Christian consciences will force us to work for an increased tax upon our opulence, and that would really be to rise above our vested self - interest in order to provide the necessary public facilities and services for the whole society.

As others have pointed out though it would be easy for CM to name it and in the process do a public service to others to stop them taking it by accident.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

@Spectrum — your point relates to steps available to politicians who are public servants and answerable to their public office and not «contracts» for football services.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

My general point was that formula is a manufactured product in the private sector, whereas c - sections are a public - sector service.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) hit back today over media reports on Ministry of Defence (MoD) bonuses and accused the Conservatives of misrepresenting civilian defence staff to score political points.

«The NASUWT has called for a Parliamentary Select Committee enquiry into the cost of education, as it is now increasingly clear that a basic principle of our great public services, that they should be free at the point of use, is being seriously compromised.»

But that's far from inevitable and it certainly won't happen with a government that stands by whilst wages and salaries are driven down, industry is hollowed out and public services are cut to the point of breakdown.»

The second point is that mutualism in the public sector raises issues concerning equity similar to those posed by localism: how can equal access and quality of service be maintained nationally if there is much greater variation in how services are delivered locally.

Through democracy, at various geographic levels, in governance and public services, it creates a welfare state that is free at the point of need, yet more accountable to citizens.

I would add that further complicating matters is the likelihood that Scotland's credit rating would be lower than that of the United Kingdom, which would make it more expensive for the new government to borrow in order to provide an equivalent level of public services, a point made by Prof Iain McLean.

I think your third point, about moving from a purely individualised to a collective conception of power in public services is an important one.

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Labour has a growing 19 point lead on public trust to look after the health service.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

Speaking about politics and about «public service,» Spitzer continuously pointed to his time as attorney general — rather than his time as governor — as the office of record he hoped voters would examine.

In 2012 Governor Cuomo directed the Public Service Commission to develop a plan for the closing of Indian Point.

He points to a letter that Cuomo to former chair Audrey Zibelman, in her capacity as CEO of the Department of Public Service, directing her to open a proceeding on getting the state to 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and providing the nuclear subsidies.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

Conservatives will point out they have voted for cuts to public services, but not cuts to the number of MPs.

All of us have at some point been inspired by the compassion, commitment and professionalism of those giving of themselves in public service — whether it's a doctor, nurse, teacher, firefighter or a policewoman.

Ken makes the point Thatcher never cut mainstream public services but made savings and corrected the balance with the private sector through privatising subsidised nationalised industries.

In my live blog of today's historic PMQs I wrote this: «In what has to be one of the lowest points in public service broadcasting BBC2's Daily Politics coverage stops halfway through the Prime Minister's concluding remarks to cut to Wimbledon.»

Gregg Sayre, Cuomo's interim Public Service Commission chair, testified about the 2016 decision to have the state pay nearly $ 8 billion to keep the FitzPatrick, Nine Mile Point and Ginna nuclear power plants open.

The state Public Service Commission has been studying a contingency plan to replace Indian Point, but has not put forward a roadmap for replacing the 2,000 megawatts of emissions - free power it produces.

«There are clearly points of concern in the report but the real danger will be that some of the recommendations do not feed the coalition's irrational contempt of public service workers and therefore the more positive ones are unlikely to see the light of day.»

So guess what point Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has to make?

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «It has always been a fundamental principle of our great public services that they are free at the point of use.