Sentences with phrase «scale back the development»

These days, he's driven by the pursuit of balance — a pursuit that has actually led him to scale back the development of his culinary empire.
Suppose secondly that China scaled back its development plans so that it only doubled its per person consumption of coal.
«Whilst others scaled back their development in the capital during the recession we maintained our commitment to growth.
It also has scaled back its development pipeline from 4,385 units in May 2001 to 2,609 units a year later, abandoning proposed projects in Long Beach, Calif., and Austin, Texas, Stockert says.
Although Kimco's management has cited it is well positioned to withstand the current slowdown in consumer spending, the company did scale back its development pipeline to $ 2 billion from $ 2.1 billion.

Not exact matches

Dropping crime rates and tight budgets have lead many cities to scale back their police forces, but job growth is set to be stable according to Employment and Social Development Canada.
But the little - known agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been thrust into the spotlight as trade groups mount an unusually intense lobbying effort, seeking to scale back regulations that they say are hampering an industry that could provide a market - based solution to the affordable housing crisis.
Segment Results Effective December 29, 2012, the company combined the reporting of the financial results of its former Luxury segment with the North America segment based upon its scaling back of separate development activity and the aggregation of future marketing and sales of both upscale tier and luxury tier inventory.
This been accomplished in several ways: 85 % have scaled back on their exploration and development plans; 68 % have reduced their marketing and investor relations budget; 60 % have already begun laying off existing employees; 40 % have implemented organization - wide hiring restrictions; 34 % noted a reduction or elimination of incentive pay; and 32 % have made salary cuts.
She has been too cozy with developers at the South Street Seaport, too onboard with the Bloomberg administration's overzealous development and may not have worked hard enough to scale back N.Y.U.'s expansion.
One of the focuses of a New York Times article is Council Speaker Christine Quinn's questioning of both sides, including her asking opponents of the bill if they'd support it if it were scaled back to only include gigantic developments like stadiums and airports.
«Right now, when large - scale development is winding through the city land - use review process, sometimes, developers give back a school, sometimes they give back a park, sometimes it's affordable housing, sometimes it's nothing and sometimes a project isn't approved,» she said.
The press release said the new $ 100 million plan, significantly scaled back from a full - fledged casino resort, involves «the development of a world - class destination sports facility.»
Now some lawmakers want to scale back the economic development spending at the heart of those cases.
We see this happening in Two Bridges, where I am actively working with residents to create tools to fight back against out - of - scale luxury development.
They said the development corporation's proposal lacks broad public support and threw their support behind a plan that scales back residential and commercial development in favor of more green space and public access to the waterfront.
The White House has scaled back but boosted its overall funding request for non-defense research and development by 5 percent, pushing it up to $ 64.9 billion
Another major pharma player, Roche, canceled its BACE1 research back in 2013, but several large - scale trials for BACE1 inhibitors are still currently in development or underway.
These cuts would scale back federal efforts to foster the development of wind and solar energy, in line with President Donald Trump's campaign promise to bring back coal industry jobs.
In part motivated by the game's big budget and subsequently disappointing sales figures, developer Remedy Entertainment decided to trim back the development scale some for the series» next release by making it an XBLA exclusive.
Theater Mania has an interest piece on why so many musicals disappear in the development stages The Film Stage looks at MoMA's Scorsese exhibit of film one sheets CHUD an editorial on why we need gays as main characters in mainstream blockbusters - written by a straight man Guardian Hilary Swank scaling back career to care for her ailing father.
A film based on the game has been reportedly «in development» for over a decade, going as far back as 2007, with director Len Wiseman attached in 2008, though he dropped out in 2010 after the $ 100 million budget was scaled back, and the project languished for years.
Several months after the New American Schools Development Corporation announced it would continue bankrolling only nine of its 11 design teams, the two unfunded projects are striving to remain alive by scaling back their prototypes for «break the mold» schools.
We accelerate the development of new quality schools by backing new schools, scaling up high performing schools, supporting restart schools, and piloting solutions for serving the most at - risk students, like special education, English Learners and foster youth.
This acquisition would also prevent this source of chips from drying up: Texas Instruments recently announced that it is scaling back research and development for this portion of its business.
The game development studios need the revenue to sustain their development but because of piracy, their operations have to be scaled back instead of expanding to create more and better games.
A film based on the game has been reportedly «in development» for over a decade, going as far back as 2007, with director Len Wiseman attached in 2008, though he dropped out in 2010 after the $ 100 million budget was scaled back, and the project languished for years.
So the company went back to the drawing board, and decided to approach individual developers and designers with the offer of creating more personal, smaller - scale projects not constrained by the typical marketing realities of triple - A game development.
The exhibition presents 23 large - scale canvases and 17 works on paper, outlining the development of each painter's formal vocabulary while suggesting deep connections between and among the works of all three which stretches back to the early 1970s, according to the museum.
«The evidence is clear: to avoid catastrophic climate change, we need our political and financial leaders to stop any further fossil fuel development and start scaling back,» said Amanda Starbuck of Rainforest Action Network, whose organization endorsed the report.
While carbon pricing can theoretically address the externalities associated with climatic harm from emissions, it can not automatically deal with the externalities holding back grid development, which include the monopoly status of many of the firms involved, issues concerning economies of scale, the fact that the absence of transmission capacity restricts the emergence of renewable generation capacity (and vice versa).
But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.
The country's political commitment to tackling deforestation and forest degradation has been questioned — for example, it remains the largest exporter of timber in the world, and continues to back large - scale land conversion plans under a paradigm of «green development».
For the most extreme scenarios and for the time scales of several hundred years or longer much uncertainty remains, but much uncertainty remains also on the significance of the development after we have reached the maximum and the concentration has turned back on the lessening trend.
Which is why an entire paradigm shift still must take place before we can speed truly sustainable development on a large scale — people need to value living close to that bar (or better yet, other establishments like markets and restaurants), or to mass transit that can get them there and back safely.
«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable progress in putting a price on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.
The S8's display was the product of years of research and development, drawing on everything that the company had learned producing curved displays at scale all the way back to 2014's Note Edge tablet.
So companies that were relying on development as a main engine for growth are now scaling back on construction, which translates to lower returns.
The existing permit process enables developers of certain projects to avoid having to apply for an individual permit, a detailed and time - consuming process that can raise development costs and force developers to scale back project plans, ultimately impacting buyers.
However, «unless unanticipated developments adversely affect the economic outlook, the process of scaling back accommodation likely will not be as slow as it was during the past couple of years.»
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