Sentences with phrase «recent years proposals»

In recent years proposals to present at the national conference have required that the author identify one of the standards to be addressed in the presentation.

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In a recent proposal put forward to Canada's major banks, Quebec - based shareholder rights group MÉDAC (Mouvement d'éducation et de défense des actionnaires) asked the Big Five to commit to achieving equal representation between men and women on their boards in 10 years.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

Nonexecutive board chairs (and / or so - called lead independent directors) have been one of the major corporate governance «reform» proposals in recent years.

In recent years, however, shareholders have increasingly used SEC Exchange Act Rule 14a - 8 (the so - called shareholder proposal rule), to not just manage but even micromanage corporate decisions.

Additionally, for the third year in a row, shareholders will vote on a shareholder proposal requesting that Chipotle enhance its sustainability reporting, an issue that may have special significance given the recent food safety incidents.

Overall, Chairman Camp deserves a lot of credit for producing a full tax reform proposal; the first such proposal to come out of a Congressional committee in recent years.

Over the recent years of rapid growth of Bitcoin, several different development paths and proposals have emerged within the Bitcoin community.

The pressure to close the gap is strong, and it has led to a variety of proposals being put forward in recent years.

Recent years have seen an extraordinary flurry of new proposals, ranging from technical works of esoteric scholarship to racy publications that court a public sensation.

Bernardini said the museum's recent proposal mirrors a plan that has been talked about for years.

In recent years, those opponents have helped defeat a long list of Park District referendum proposals that asked for permission to sell bonds to construct a swimming facility.

And proposals for temporary marriages have popped up in recent years in Mexico City, Germany and the Philippines.

Frustrated with numerous delays in constructing a skate park near the city's downtown in recent years, a group of residents and city business owners came forward with a proposal to build a 10,000 - to 12,000 - square - foot temporary facility on a 7 acres next to the DuPage Children's Museum on Spring Avenue.

And there has been a significant change in recent years that limits even the Legislature's capability of delay — Paterson's «nuclear option,» in which unpalatable policy proposals are placed into extender bills, forcing the Legislature to choose between accepting the governor's ideas and shutting down the government.

Frank Mauro, executive director emeritus of the Fiscal Policy Institute and a onetime secretary of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, argued against Proposal One, writing at the time that it would have made the state budget process «even more of a mess than it has been in many recent years.»

Eight years after rejecting the idea of installing cameras at intersections to catch drivers who run red lights, Buffalo officials are again considering the proposal after a rash of recent hit - and - run accidents, including two fatalities.

State legislators have introduced a number of proposals for tuition - free programs in recent years, but none have made it out of committee.

Albany has been plagued in recent years by the creation of poorly designed oversight entities that lack the requisite independence from the very institutions and individuals they oversee; this proposal represents a continuation of the Capitol's preference for self - policing.

Unlike the proposals of many recent years, which prompted council members and advocates to march on the steps of City Hall, fighting to halt cuts to city agencies and social services, Mr. de Blasio's preliminary budget is relatively painless.

Poloncarz's unwillingness to support four - year terms for legislators, his deteriorating relationship with Republican Legislature Chairman John Mills, R - Orchard Park, and his increasingly acrimonious relationship with Lorigo brought a halt or slowdown to several proposals he brought to the Legislature in recent months.

Talking to reporters outside his office on the third floor of the Capitol Wednesday afternoon, Heastie said the conference would be working through the governor's proposal so that it more closely matches the legislation the chamber has passed in recent years.

New council housing, rail renationalisation and more progressive taxation are realistic redistributive proposals that would reconnect with disillusioned voters, and only Diane has shown the commitment both now and over recent years to carry them through.

Senior members of the party want Mr Cameron to announce a number of new policy proposals in the new year as a way of taking the electorate's focus away from the economy, over which he has appeared weak when compared to Gordon Brown in recent polls.

The proposal has been blocked in recent years by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

De Blasio's comments were a reference to a recent Senate proposal to extend mayoral control only for a year and make the city school budget subject to approval by the Legislature.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

Indeed, many of the proposals the group has made are traditional Republican priorities that have been increasingly supported by the state's top Democrats in recent years.

Albany's most recent spin - up from the state was $ 7.8 million in 2013 — Mayor Jerry Jennings» final year in office — added to the executive budget proposal in Cuomo's February amendments.

«The FCC's recent proposal is a five - year plan to improve accuracy and aim for an 80 percent success rate in pinpointing callers.

«In recent years, [NSF] has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows,» but «one piece of the agency has found a potentially powerful new tool to flatten [submission] spikes and cut the number of proposals: It can simply eliminate deadlines,» Eric Hand reported last Friday.

Recent challenges to the Clovis - first proposal include evidence that humans inhabited Florida's Gulf Coast about 14,550 years ago (SN: 6/11/16, p. 8) and South America as early as 18,500 years ago (SN: 12/26/15, p. 10).

While I am proud that we have doubled our national medical research budget at the National Institutes of Health over the five year period of 1998 to 2003, I am particularly disappointed about spending proposals in recent years that would reverse this trend.

In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.

For instance, the most recent RSC proposal for FY 2017 recommended cutting the discretionary budget by an additional $ 1 trillion below the current caps over the next ten years.

EPSRC receives the largest number of grant proposals among the U.K. research councils, and that number has grown dramatically in recent years, according to David Reid, head of communications at the council.

But Susan Dudley, director of George Washington University's Regulatory Studies Center in Washington DC, which conducts independent research on regulatory proposals, argues that there has already been a drop in exposure to silica dust and its health effects in recent years.

The proposal has broad support: twice in recent years, Congress passed a similar bill that was vetoed by then - president Bush.

In recent years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has struggled with the logistics of evaluating a rising number of grant proposals that has propelled funding rates to historic lows.

Although the hearing didn't focus on a specific bill, it touched on two dueling proposals introduced in Congress in recent years.

Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account.

Berlin isn't typically the hottest of markets for major acquisitions activity, but we have seen some big deals in recent years and this year there are any number of attractive proposals, from competition to pre-buys, on offer.

The proposals would also eliminate education - related programs that the Reagan Administration has unsuccessfully sought to kill in recent years, including impact - aid «B» payments to districts where parents live or work on federal land — saving $ 100 million — and the Women's Educational Equity and Follow Through...

At a June 2015 education forum hosted by the National Journal, U.S. senator Lamar Alexander threw cold water on recent proposals to make the first two years of college free — because he thinks it already is.

In a new contract proposal to the teachers union, UTLA, LA Unified is offering a three - year package with annual raises of at least 2 percent and a plan to re-hire 3,000 teachers who have been laid off in recent years.

But that's exactly what has happened, as evidenced by a recent proposal to allow charters and other organizations to compete for the right to operate 50 new L.A. schools over the next few years.

Other school systems in North Carolina have faced similar problems, with officials in Madison, Halifax and Stanly counties all facing school closure proposals in recent years, said Winner.

Therefore, TCSA's proposal is to exempt students, who are identified through TEA's PEIMS crisis codes as students impacted by Harvey and other recent hurricanes, from the school's district and campus accountability subset for the 2017 - 18 school year.

Lawmakers incorporated that proposal into one of the largest education bills passed in recent years.

«We are also encouraged to see that the proposal makes significant progress toward addressing the historical disparity in funding levels that students in charter schools have experienced relative to traditional public schools, a problem that was made only more severe during the state's funding crisis of recent years.