Sentences with phrase «recent changes in standards»

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It has become more likely for stock prices to make large swings — on the order of 3 percent or 4 percent — than it has been in any other time in recent stock market history, according to an analysis by The New York Times of price changes in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock market index since 1962.

In the U.S., recent 401 (k) rule changes have imposed a fiduciary standard on employers.

Her first book The Prentice Hall Complete Business Etiquette Handbook in 1995 helped set the standard for the field, and her most recent book, The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way To Success continues to establish etiquette guidelines for the ever - changing workplace.

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Recent changes in crib safety standards also make buying a used crib difficult now, since it's illegal to sell some types of older cribs.

With so much attention placed upon nut allergies in recent years, new medical studies on nut allergies are being released regularly and the standards have been changing.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

Still, after high rates of student opt outs during the most recent round of state examinations in April, Cuomo has recalibrated when it comes to education policy and formed a panel to recommend potential changes to the controversial Common Core standards by January.

Next Steps Algae biofuels should benefit from recent changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a set of regulations that require gasoline in the United States be blended with a certain amount of renewable fuel.

Ad Astra, a nongovernmental organization of Romanian scientists with an interest in bringing the country up to international standards, has also protested the changes at CNATDCU in a recent public statement, where it pointed out that the Romanian government is sending contradictory messages by removing all expatriated scientists from CNATDCU while organizing a conference aimed at building bridges between at - home and expatriated scientists.

Most famously, in 2003, Soon co-authored a paper in the journal Climate Research that questioned the standard interpretation of climate change over the past millennium and argued that recent warming is not unusual by historical standards.

A recent study published in the journal JAMA observed people with chronic lower back pain who received either MBSR, cognitive behavioral therapy (a talk therapy designed to change negative thinking patterns), or whatever standard care they were using before.

In recent years, however, there has been a shift in the thought process of military professionals that has changed the views of standard military PT and will affect many generations of soldiers in the futurIn recent years, however, there has been a shift in the thought process of military professionals that has changed the views of standard military PT and will affect many generations of soldiers in the futurin the thought process of military professionals that has changed the views of standard military PT and will affect many generations of soldiers in the futurin the future.

Recent years have also brought a principled critique by influential scholars — E.D. Hirsch, Grover Whitehurst, and Diane Ravitch come immediately to mind — of both standards - based reform and school choice, on the grounds that these changes neglect crucial issues of curriculum and instruction (and so neglect what actually goes on in classrooms between teachers and students).

And in recent years, most states have adopted sweeping educational policy changes, including teacher evaluations tied to test scores and Common Core academic standards that have changed what and how students learn in the classroom.

Recent events in teacher preparation such as the new national accreditation standards suggest that there is an appetite for change in this field.

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative session.

Despite these recent changes in CAEP's accreditation standards, however, many programs have maintained their rigorous entry requirements.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

Indeed, as University of South Carolina law professor Derek W. Black writes in a recent analysis of waivers, not only does NCLB not authorize conditional waivers, even if a court were to read any waiver authorization as implicitly authorizing conditions, the actual conditions attached — «college - and career - ready standards,» new teacher evaluations, etc. — fundamentally change the law.

The updated standards reflect research about the effect that social aspects — such as family engagement — have on education, as well as the increasingly complex role of school leaders, brought on by recent changes in state and federal policy.

In a recent interview, we talked to her about the common standards and how they might change teachers» work.

The change is just one of about 300 made in the vehicles.At a recent preview of its 1994 lineup in San Francisco, Chrysler said it will be the only automaker offering dual safety cushions - the driver's side air bag already was standard - in minivans for» 94.

Our last blog post was an introduction to the recent changes in the FHA Pre-Foreclosure Sale Program: reviewing the new «Standard» and «Streamlined» programs, and outlining what the new eligibility requirements are for each.

I changed to a Wrap Account managed by a financial adviser and negotiated lower fees, although the fees have crept up in recent years, and are now slightly below average of a standard Retail Fund.

Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending trends, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the interactive game market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.

How has the recent surge of interest in Californian art spurred by the Getty's postwar art history initiative, Pacific Standard Time, changed the way people see your work?

Because the title is comparing Hegerl's results not with the standard range, but with the subject of your post, namely «recent research suggesting that the climate may be susceptible to extreme increases in temperature», noting that «Several studies have found that the temperature change may be higher than 16.2 ºF (9ºC).

The onslaught intensified as errors in the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change's most recent report surfaced in January and policy makers and reporters began to question what has become the gold standard of climate science.

A recent study entitled Early emergence of anthropogenically forced heat waves in the western United States and Great Lakes was publicized in the Syracuse New York Post Standard under the headline Upstate NY among first to have most heat waves due to climate change.

Sherrard thinks there'll be a significant increase in employment standards compliance work for employment lawyers, and he also expects more activity for labour lawyers providing services to federally regulated employers in the wake of recent Canada Labour Code changes.

Like the rest of the legal market, ATE insurance has changed a lot in recent years, and should now be part of commercial litigators» standard armoury.

When considering changes to labour and employment standards legislation, BC policy - makers need to be mindful of the cost impact on employers, pay attention to developments in other jurisdictions, and avoid taking actions that could jeopardize the strong economic growth and robust job creation the province has enjoyed in recent years.

A further significant change reflects the emergence of new audit standards in recent years.

In this column I want to share my own law school's recent efforts to answer them, and the significant curricular changes we have adopted in our attempt to bring ourselves closer to our standard for a great law schooIn this column I want to share my own law school's recent efforts to answer them, and the significant curricular changes we have adopted in our attempt to bring ourselves closer to our standard for a great law schooin our attempt to bring ourselves closer to our standard for a great law school.

Recent changes to the underwriting guidelines, for a select number of life insurance companies in 2016, has allowed those with well controlled type II diabetes to be approved at the same rates given to the standard applicant.

Another major change under GDPR relates to security incidents — aka data breaches (something else we've seen an awful, awful lot of in recent years)-- with the regulation doing what the US still hasn't been able to: Bringing in a universal standard for data breach disclosures.

The most recent round of changes to the Standard format dealt a brutal blow to Freeze Mage decks, which have been a common construction since the beginning of the game, by removing one of its win conditions in «Ice Lance.»

It isn't yet clear whether the changes the social network has made in recent weeks to bolster user privacy are sufficient to comply with UK standards.

Now, with the recent innovations of OpenType Variable Fonts — pioneered in collaboration between Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, and others — and new standards allowing for developers to control font variations in CSS, things are about to change.

Not to mention that standards have changed in recent times, and modernity is expected from every fresher resume you send out.

With the recent changes in Massachusetts law, or any state for that matter, it is crucial to stay up - to - date on the latest backgrounds screening trends, laws and compliance standards.

The smaller change between the third and fourth quarters of 2001 is most likely due to tighter credit standards associated with the recent downturn in the economy, increased office vacancies and problems in the hospitality industry.

The Obama administration's recent policy changes make mortgages more affordable for qualified buyers by reducing mortgage prices and fees, but in no way lower the lending standards to get those mortgages, as the article implies.

You should also be aware that lending standards have changed in recent years.

Identifying, assessing, and minimizing such risks has become more complicated in light of several recent developments: most notably, changes to risk evaluation standards; a renewed regulatory emphasis on environmental compliance and enforcement; and a spate of transactions stemming from the recession.