Sentences with phrase «say over the agency»

«Although New York City residents contribute the vast bulk of its revenues through fares, tolls, and taxes, the city has relatively little say over the agency and its operating and capital priorities,» Shorris wrote.

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When it comes to Facebook, the agency tracks liking and sharing activity across the platform, and it says the data shows a «noticeable decline in engagement» with media content over the past few months.

No hazardous materials were found during a search of a backpack the individual carried over the fence, the agency said.

As the firestorm over Trump's comment began late last week, the White House and Trump's National Security Council provided no guidance to the State Department about what to say to foreign countries who were incensed, said a U.S. official familiar with the conversations between the White House and other federal agencies.

Vancouver has asked the British Columbia provincial government for more money for refugee aid agencies, said city spokesman Jag Sandhu, and the province has promised C$ 6 million a year over three years.

If accurate, she said, «someone needs to explain how foreign actors are transmitting over our airwaves without approval from this agency».

Through its pervasive digital ads, TV spots, and radio voice - overs, Lumosity, the agency said, had peddled «unfounded claims» that users could reduce or delay serious cognitive conditions, including Alzheimer's, dementia, and ADHD just by playing its games.

Laura and I started DigitalFlash about five years ago and have narrowed the focus many times over the years,» says Sara Walker - Santana, co-founder of the digital agency DigitalFlash.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

The company recently said it is going to pay $ 465 million to the Department of Justice and other government agencies over the way it classified the EpiPen in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.

«We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount,» said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R - N.J. «Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate.»

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Pompeo, who has said the agency would become more «aggressive» and «vicious,» pushed for such lethal operations after he took over the agency in January 2017.

The hacking campaign disrupted the 2016 U.S. election and cast a shadow over the presidency of Donald Trump, whom U.S. intelligence agencies say the hackers were trying to help.

The company told Business Insider's Mike Shields in mid-September that it is touting this pool of data, which it says is rich with information on people's shopping habits, in planned meetings with numerous agencies and marketers over the next few weeks.

In the same hearing, Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers added their organizations to the list of many other American and international intelligence agencies over the past week that have said there's no evidence to back the president's wiretapping allegation against former President Barack Obama.

A senior Federal Aviation Administration official said in June the agency expects to finalize regulations for commercial drone operations over the next 12 months.

«You can't just send money over to another agency and expect them to be able to launch satellites,» said Abdalati, the former NASA chief scientist.

In 2016 the agency said it responded to 1,095 cyber attacks over an 18 - month period, including an intrusion from a foreign intelligence service on the weather bureau.

The Obama administration's refusal to either endorse or oppose legislation from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the Republican chair and top Democrat respectively of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stems in part from ongoing divisions among various federal agencies over encryption, the sources said.

Japan's Financial Services Agency surprised the operators of Coincheck with an unannounced visit to the cryptocurrency exchange's office, and said that it had warned the firm to beef up its security measures in advance of the theft of over 500 NEM tokens in January.

Sources described as «close to» the agency apparently said that the move comes in response to concerns over money laundering and other possible illegal uses of the cryptocurrencies.

On January 28, 2014 — European Data Protection Day (yes, it's been celebrated in Europe since 2006)-- EU vice president and justice commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech that European citizens were «in shock» over the extent of the National Security Agency snooping.

In early deliberations over the financial regulatory plan known as Dodd - Frank, Summers captured the president's imagination with a colorful analogy that emphasized the need for a new agency to protect consumer interests, saying banking regulators could not be trusted to do the job, according to participants in the meeting.

Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said at an industry conference in Istanbul over the weekend that Kazakhstan's withdrawal from its pledge to the cap will take place gradually, Russian news agency TASS reported.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is setting itself up for a hard legal battle over fuel economy standards, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said.

Over half of regional banks lost money on core businesses - lending and fees - in the year through March 2017, prompting the Financial Services Agency, which oversees the industry, to say consolidation could be considered for such banks to thrive.

But Kim did not bring up the issue when he met Moon at the border village of Panmunjeom on Friday for the first inter-Korean talks in over a decade, Yonhap News Agency said, quoting officials of the presidential office.

Matt Jarvis, managing director and chief strategy officer, said the agency over the years «has gotten calls but didn't go looking» to ink a deal with a holding company.

«This does bring a sense of urgency to getting this done over the next month with the speaker leaving,» said Representative Stephen Fincher, who has led House Republican efforts to renew the export credit agency's charter, which expired nearly three months ago.

The government says that proposed legislation, Bill 8, could require credit - reporting agencies to give consumers free online access to their current credit score at least twice a year and to disclose information in a credit report about any scores that were given to third parties over the past 12 months.

«We will be reviewing the recommended redactions from DOJ and FBI, which these agencies shared with the White House, and look forward to conferring with the agencies to determine how we can properly inform the American people about the misleading attack on law enforcement by the GOP and address any concerns over sources and methods,» Schiff said.

Over half of the respondents said they either currently have or are in the process of developing a travel agency referral program for preferred agencies, some requiring a minimum sales quota to be met, while others offer such programs by invitation only.

Finally, picture these agencies of repression presiding over a plethora of varied media that in no way resembles the great gray yea - saying totalitarian states, but rather reminds one of our own vulgar and sassy, bright and brave, deep and honest confusion of voices.

The beverages industry would welcome collaboration with food regulatory and health agencies as well as consumer groups to examine new ways of further improving understanding and use of the existing scheme, the Daily Intake Guide (% DIG), which covers over 90 % of the volume of drinks consumed in Australia each year» Mr Parker said.

FIFA on Tuesday charged World Cup hosts Russia over fan racism during their friendly against France, while law enforcement agencies say they thwarted an alleged «extermist» plot by to derail the event this summer.

In a statement in 2008, the FDA said BPA was safe in materials that come into contact with food, to which critics accused the agency of using outdated studies that had been sponsored by the chemical industry, so this new cautionary statement is a huge step in direction of consumer safety over corporate pressure.

The state agency said the number of jobs in greater Chicago climbed by 72,800, or 1.8 percent, over the year to 4.06 million.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a September collision between an Army helicopter and a drone that was illegally flying over Staten Island, agency officials said.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said that while the agency encouraged the use of public land, concern over the Blue Hole — a popular swimming spot in the Catskills — had grown, as the «postage stamp - sized area» recently began drawing up to 1,000 visitors a day, resulting in new regulations.

He said the youth employment agency under the 59the auspices of the Ministry of Employment and Labour relations is currently in the process of recruiting over 20 thousand young Ghanaians.

On her part, the Coordinator of the event and Assistant Director, Administration and Human Resources of the Agency, Miss Abiodun Olayinmika Macgregor, said the forum is targeted at business moguls, CEOs, Captains of industries and other well - meaning philanthropists all over Nigeria and the international sectors who are in the vanguard of giving back to the society, especially where they operate.

Twitter has surprised observers by saying it is prepared to hand over the details of its users to law enforcement agencies over injunctions.

Although Mrs. Jonathan has been having a running battle with the anti-graft agency, EFCC, over the ownership of a controversial $ 15 million, sources at the commission said the EFCC did not carry out the raid.

Gottfried seemed to take the EPA's side in its ongoing dispute with the Cuomo administration over who was ultimately responsible for the mess in Hoosick Falls, saying that even though the federal agency's acceptable levels of PFOA consumption was a moving target, the state should have been able to follow through — and, in his opinion, dropped the ball.

The number of children with food allergies has increased nearly 50 percent over the past 20 years, and the number of people with peanut and tree nut allergies has more than tripled in that time, the agency said.

In today's Times, Reinvent Albany executive director John Kaehny says there is a «General consensus that city and state agencies» compliance with the Freedom of Information Law «has been sliding over the last decade.

Hinton said de Blasio's first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, found out in late February when DCAS Commissioner Lisette Camilo, who had recently taken over the agency, learned of the situation from a local community board and put a hold on all deed restriction modifications.

Wiley, who will take over as chair next month, calls herself a racial and gender justice advocate and says those roots make her move from legal adviser inside City Hall to head of the outside agency — as well as professor at the New School — a kind of homecoming.

«While total state spending has been held to 2 percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have remained flat, school aid has increased by 27 percent over the last five years, proving that it's already a funding priority,» Peters said.