Ex-lobbyist Todd Howe described how top Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide Joe Percoco helped
run the government when he was a campaign manager and helped arrange fundraisers with cloaked donors while working for the state, in testimony Tuesday at Percoco's federal bribery trial.
It is difficult to run a party and impossible to
run a government when the leader's inner circle remains relatively closed to outside advice.
Not exact matches
Balanced - budget law allows the federal
government to
run a deficit
when recession looms.
The U.S. has told the British
government that it would not repeat accusations that it had helped former U.S. President Barack Obama to spy on President Donald Trump
when he was
running for the White House.
Newfoundland's fight can be seen as a dry
run for
when the federal
government finally bows to international pressure and dismantles the antiquated rules that protect Canada's provincial dairy, poultry and egg markets from foreign competition.
Rohrabacher, for his part, didn't condemn WikiLeaks
when it leaked the CIA's hacking tools in March; rather, he told far - right media outlet Breitbart that the revelations showed that the US is «sliding... into an authoritarian mode where the
government is
running the lives of the people.»
«I don't agree, but Americans seem to feel the
government works best
when the White House and the Congress are
run by different parties.
When governments run prolonged deficits, they are spending money that belongs to future generations.
When he learned of the plan, Tsinosis resisted: after all, he worked for the Ontario
government prosecuting traffic offences, while Greenwood
ran a firm that defended people so charged.
And the nation has built out a cyberpolice team, which is funded by the U.K., while
government agencies
run regular simulations so that employees know how to deal with hacks
when they take place.
However, even
when the federal
government ran surpluses in the late 1990s, our current account deficit continued to increase.
A Bloomberg article suggests that cryptocurrency's big breakthrough in the country occurred in 2016,
when scammers conducting a long -
running Ponzi scheme known as MMM began demanding payment in bitcoin because the
government had started targeting their bank accounts.
This is the same Jamie Dimon who didn't need a cash infusion
when Hank Paulson summoned chief executives of the nine largest U.S. banks to the Treasury in October 2008, handed them an agreement to sell shares to the U.S.
government and told them to sign it; the same Jamie Dimon who managed to steer JPMorgan through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and remain profitable; the same Jamie Dimon whom the
government tapped to buy Bear Stearns Cos. to prevent potential fallout from its collapse; the same Jamie Dimon who was held up as amodel for how a bank should be
run.
If «no -
government - intervention» remains your default response, you're supporting big bankers and future bailouts
when the money machine
runs wild again.
It might be a revelation that
when oil prices and
government borrowing are
running rampant, interest rates can go UP during a recession (1974).
This
ran counter to prior
government strategy, which was to raise loan limits
when home values climbed; and, to lower loan limits
when home values dropped.
When there's strong need for
government intervention in the economy, similarly the last person you need
running the
government is someone who believes
government should never intervene in the economy.
And so for example, if you look at U.S.
government debt, which is the one almost everyone always talks about, most people aren't sitting there worrying about how much debt does Amazon have,
when you look at
government debt, interest payments on
government debt as a percent of GDP or as a percent of tax revenue, currently because interest rates are relatively low, are very low, are
running half, literally half of what they were in the second half of the»80s and the first half of the»90s.
When I
ran a global trade and financial company out of Southeast Asia, I was continually dogged by
government rules... especially the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the
government it was to keep the Church from
running the
government.
When Jesus is elected to
run the
government then we can ask him what he would cut.
But if it's true that our
government did all that in an hour then I am definitely voting for Obama
when he
runs for reelection because I'm pretty sure he's a freaking sorcerer.
Hostees did it for other reasons, but no need to
run a business against your own conscience
when forced by a godless
government to do things against your own beliefs!
That pattern
runs counter to speculation that Catholics would focus more on hot - button issues at a time
when Catholic bishops are battling the Obama White House over
government - mandated contraception coverage.
When will Iran's
government and clerics stop
running from the truth that their religion - which they call Islam - would be unrecognizable to the Prophet Mohammed?
When you force
government run charity, it actually hinders the poor instead of helping them, in many cases.
But now insurance can't deny his daughter life - saving treatments (and without his
government -
run insurance
when he was a Senator, odds are his daughter would have died a month after birth like most children with her disease).
@HOWARD funny how the first thing people like you go
running to is some sort of attack on
government welfare
when thats only a fraction of the entire story.
As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to
run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over
when the
government is incompetent or failing to do its job.
To me, Islam has become a political entity, they
run governments, and
when a «religion»
runs government their philosophy is not offered, its mandated.
President Eisenhower, who had never been a church member until he decided to
run for the presidency (he quickly became a Presbyterian), summed up the religiosity of the period
when he said: «Our
government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious belief — and I don't care what it is.»
I agree with Tom, no one cares that you believe, thats fine by me, but
when you try to envelope your religious beliefs into
government / lawmaking / schooling, you cross a line, the Taliban
runs their
government with a strict religious core and thats working out great for those under their law, isn't it?
They can't,
when what they want is a
government run by a religion — theirs, of course.
Just ask the Catholics in the late 1800s,
when the US
government wanted to ration the amount of Catholics in the country, since they were afraid that the Pope would end up
running the USA.
We are no better than the middle east
when we try to
run our
government with religion.
Should corporations come
running to Washington for help with a big project like this
when they usually want the
government to leave them alone?
When we elect a
government to
run the country we have accept that they will make decisions on our behalf.
When schools are
run by
government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.
Turnout doubtless goes up
when the electorate wants to give the incumbent party of
government a good kicking, but it also goes up
when the result looks like being close
run.
James Scott recently argued that
when states historically tried to levy taxes people would
run to the hills, and that the hill cultures reflect this aversion to
government.
A horror show of decrepit political formations not seen since the inter-war years has been exhumed from the crypt and installed across Europe: national
governments, externally - imposed technocrats, even — in Greece — a troika - dictated regimen «reminiscent of Austria in 1922,
when a High Commissioner was posted to Vienna by the Entente — under League of Nations colours — to
run the economy to its satisfaction» (Anderson, 2012, 57).
The
government is condemned for
running out of ideas
when the truth is it has already had more than enough of them.
«One of the criticisms of Carl Paladino
when he was
running for governor was that he didn't have a good understanding of the ins and outs of
government and parliamentary procedure.
My research looks at ideologies as being produced at different levels, from that of
government, through the press, electronic media and interest groups, right down to the normal and never - ending manifestations of the ideas and values we hold
when we consider how the various communities to which we belong — national or local, formal and informal — should be
run.
«I had a front - row seat in the private sector to what happens
when a
government office meant to provide grownup supervision to Albany politicians was itself
run by Albany politicians,» Trichter said.
Sen. Jeff Klein has now made clear that he and his fellow IDCers would like to form a so - called coalition
government with the Senate Republicans, which, in his description, entails a true bipartisan power - sharing situation
when it comes to
running the chamber.
«While I believe that state
government can be a servant of the people
when run well and with integrity, it's just not the right time for me to seek the governorship,» he wrote.
«As the governor became more and more steeped in his quest for power and headlines and not actually getting things done for the state, and the more you saw in the Percoco trial how state
government is actually
run,
when you see all that — it just built up.»
And the tories are
running only at around their election result level in polls (marginally higher) so there has been little boost to their popularity that often happens
when a new
government forms.
Back
when he was
running for governor, Cuomo pledged, «We must use technology to bring more sunlight to the operation of
government.»