Sentences with phrase «run by this private firm»

Probation was exempt from this rule as it's not a commercial operation, but now that they're run by private firms the rules have changed.

It promoted common academic standards across schools and required «remedies» for «failing» schools — concentrated in impoverished communities of color — such as converting them to charter schools or having them run by private firms.

Many people argue that private blockchains, run by private firms, are useless, since they make users dependent upon a third party the firm managing the blockchain.

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Whether by private firms or by government, capital investment generates multiple and cascading economic benefits: spending power and job - creation in the short - run, productivity and innovation in the long - run.

U.S. private - equity firm TPG said on Oct. 13 it had sold its stake in Myanmar Distillery, the country's largest spirits company, to Thai Beverage, the beer and spirits firm run by Thai magnate Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

Corporations, private equity firms and the majority of small and mid sized business's are run by ruthless greedy people.

That system will be based on advice from the firm run by the private investigator that Cuomo hired to look into the scandal, Bart Schwartz.

That system will be based on advice from the firm run by Bart Schwartz, the private investigator Cuomo hired to look into the scandal.

Serco, the private firm which runs the centre, says she was seen by a nurse within two hours of arriving and had a full medical assessment by their GP on the same day.

Cuomo is stumping across New York pushing for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — but a state entity run by his appointees, the Battery Park City Authority, just slashed salaries below his proposed «living» wage by booting its unionized park enforcement officers and outsourcing the work to a private firm, AlliedBarton.

In 2007, the company was acquired by American Capital which is a very large private equity firm and that was when I was brought in as a CEO to run the company.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

Rep. Manny Diaz, dean of Doral College, a private university run by the state's largest for - profit charter school management firm, Academica, is at it again.

Schools Week revealed last month that private consultancy firms run by the founders of LSSAT had received more than # 1 million in the past two years.

While they're not cheap — expect a search to cost you several thousand dollars — they can save you money in the long run by helping you find a good private investment counsel firm at an attractive fee.

Outerwall has historically produced high returns on capital, and it's a business that doesn't need much tangible capital to produce huge amounts of cash flow (an attractive business), but it has been run similar to companies that get purchased by private equity firms — leverage up the balance sheet, issue a dividend (or buyout some shareholders), thus keeping very little equity «at risk».

Ms. MacLear, who has run the foundation for the artist Robert Rauschenberg since 2010 and is its first chief executive, will work with Allan Schwartzman, a longtime art adviser and a member of the firm Art Agency, Partners, which was acquired by Sotheby's in January for up to $ 85 million in a high - profile move to expand its collector base and private sales at a time when its stock price was declining.

Private financial firms can also buy and sell carbon allowances in the quarterly auctions run by RGGI Inc., a nonprofit organization that then transfers the proceeds to the states.

Today, as oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and new revelations about DAPL's parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, hiring a private mercenary firm to run a counterinsurgency operation against water protectors in North Dakota and elsewhere, Rising Tide North America will continue to stand in solidarity with movements and people directly affected by the climate crisis.

Private pro bono clinics, law school clinics and clinics run by legal aid organizations are the first point of face - to - face contact with the justice system for most people who don't have a law firm on personal retainer.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has been named «Private Client Law Firm» by Wealth Briefing magazine for the second year running and London - based partner James Quarmfirm Stephenson Harwood LLP has been named «Private Client Law Firm» by Wealth Briefing magazine for the second year running and London - based partner James QuarmFirm» by Wealth Briefing magazine for the second year running and London - based partner James Quarmby..