In addition to changing the tax brackets, it included
significant changes to standard deduction allowances.
Not exact matches
While SIFMA «has long supported a best interest
standard for all advisors,... we remain concerned that the DOL's rule could force
significant changes to current relationships, which may leave clients without the help they need
to prepare for retirement, at a time when we all agree that more can and should be done.»
The final
standard retains the pass / fail opinion of the existing auditor's report but makes
significant changes to the existing auditor's report, including the following:
Given the «
significant changes to retirement saving since the passage of ERISA,» the Coalition said, «it is entirely appropriate for the DOL
to reevaluate the 40 year - old - rule defining the fiduciary
standard for those financial professionals providing investment advice
to retirement savers,» adding that the Coalition urges OMB
to complete its review of the rule «in a timely fashion.»
«Given the
significant changes to retirement saving since the passage of ERISA, it is entirely appropriate for the DOL
to reevaluate the 40 - year - old rule defining the fiduciary
standard for those financial professionals providing investment advice
to retirement savers,» the FPC said in a statement.
Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability
to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related
to new product introductions; risks related
to BlackBerry's ability
to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid
change and
significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related
to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating
to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related
to BlackBerry's ability
to implement and
to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability
to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability
to attract and retain key personnel; risks related
to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability
to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related
to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability
to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating
to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability
to obtain rights
to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability
to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related
to government regulations, including regulations relating
to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability
to continue
to adapt
to recent board and management
changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related
to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating
to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related
to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological
changes, evolving industry
standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.
It reduced the cap on borrowing subject
to the mortgage interest deduction (MID) from $ 1 million
to $ 750,000, and capped deductions for state and local taxes, including property taxes, at $ 10,000.1 These
changes, in combination with a doubling of the
standard deduction, mean that many homeowners will experience a loss of tax benefits associated with homeownership, and the
changes represent a
significant shift in the federal government's willingness
to promote and subsidize homeownership.
States tend
to allow fewer deductions and credits than the federal government does, but especially in states with state - level Earned Income Tax Credits, eliminating deductions and credits outright (perhaps except for a
standard exemption, but even that could be hard
to implement) would be a
significant change, and potentially a tax hike on poor families.
In any case,
changing one arbitrary
standard to another would do nothing about the widespread misinterpretation and misuse of P values, or
change the fact that a statistically
significant P value can be calculated for an effect that is insignificant in practical terms.
What's more, the team found that the mothers» scores on a
standard test that gauges the degree of a mom's attachment
to her infant could be predicted
to a
significant degree based on the
changes in their gray matter volume during pregnancy.
As is described in further detail in the revised manuscript, we estimate that a 30 % increase in progranulin is the
change required
to bring an average Grn + / - mouse within 2
standard deviations of wild - type levels, making this a reasonable estimate for a biologically
significant increase.
The Institute will spur
significant advances in software infrastructure, education,
standards, and best - practices that are needed
to enable the molecular science community
to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases
to the design of new catalysts vital
to the global chemical industry and climate
change.
The
standards do not expect Algebra I
to be taught in grade 8, «reversing the most
significant change in mathematics education in America in the last decade,» and contrary
to the practice of the highest - achieving nations.
For all the hoopla, just a handful of states have proposed
significant changes to Common Core, and none of them has written higher
standards.
By contrast, classrooms that performed one
standard deviation above the average experienced no
significant change in cheating in response
to these two policies.
The translation of legislative and gubernatorial initiatives into support for schools falls
to the state agencies, which are struggling
to realize a
significant change in their roles, shaped by the
standards and accountability movement.
Stephen Sigmund, the executive director of High Achievement New York, a coalition that advocates higher
standards, said in a statement, «The Regents shouldn't make
significant policy
changes with an 11th hour and 59th minute addition
to the agenda.»
, a coalition that advocates higher
standards, said in a statement, «The Regents shouldn't make
significant policy
changes with an 11th hour and 59th minute addition
to the agenda.»
The meaning of the individual content
standards within all six domains — Ratios and Proportional Relationships, the Number System, Expressions and Equations, Functions, Geometry, and Statistics and Probability — with an emphasis on areas that represent the most
significant changes to business as usual.
New York's take on the controversial Common Core education
standards is getting its most -
significant examination yet, with two high - profile reviews promised over the coming months and some
changes likely
to follow, along with a possible re-branding.
The structure, terminology, and emphases of the Common Core mathematics
standards at the high school level, including the areas that represent the most
significant changes to business as usual.
While the field of teacher preparation has made
significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation
standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3
To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy change
To consolidate the gains and
to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy change
to overcome challenges
to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy change
to implementing universal high
standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together
to enact key policy change
to enact key policy
changes.
A
change in local governance, however, will not address a very
significant issue that the School District of Philadelphia faces: inadequate state funding
to provide all students in the District with the educational opportunities they need
to meet state
standards and graduate ready for work or further education and a bright future.
Because of
changes in the common core, expectations are that the subject matter program
standards will also need
to be revised - although officials at the CTC do not believe the
changes will be
significant.
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In late 2001 (for the 2002 model year) the model got its most
significant host of upgrades, including minor styling
changes, minor revisions
to the interior, new optional equipment, larger brakes, a re-tuned suspension system, a
standard traction control system, and optional electronic stability control.
There are
significant changes over the
standard Octavia, right from a new engine and gearbox
to a revised suspension setup.
A large rear diffuser, meanwhile, highlighted yet more
significant changes that were carried out
to enhance the
standard car's aero
to give it more downforce without the need for a large spoiler.
One set of vehicles was composed of mid -
to late - 1980s sports and luxury cars that had no ABS available one year and
standard ABS the next, and no other
significant design
change.
Naturally, the performance - minded RS Q3 will take on some
significant changes to differentiate it from the
standard RS Q3.
Lenovo tweaked the
standard camera app, and the most
significant difference is an additional button for video recording that lets you shoot clips without having
to change modes.
Occasionally, we have
to make a «
significant change» before departure such as a
change of accommodation
to that of a lower official classification or
standard for the whole or a major part of the time you are away, a
change of accommodation area for the whole or a major part of the time you are away, a
change of outward departure time or overall length of time you are away of twelve or more hours, a
change of UK departure point
to one which is significantly more inconvenient for you or a
significant change of itinerary missing out one or more major destination substantially or altogether.
For instance, in your scenario of a 20 - yr temperature
change of 0.3 ºC + / - 0.18 ºC, assuming a natural noise level (observed
standard deviation of detrended annual global temperatures from 1977 - 2004) of 0.085 ºC, a statistically
significant difference in the trend that leads
to the lowest end of your range (a
change of 0.12 ºC) and the trend that leads
to the highest end of your range (0.48 ºC) doesn't begin
to rise above the level of noise until around year 16 or 17.
Known as the Clean Power Plan, these historic
standards represent the most
significant opportunity in years
to help curb the growing consequences of climate
change.
Other possible causes of climate
change, particularly the sun, will continue
to be judged by the traditional
standards despite what we know about: the modest but statistically
significant 20th - century solar forcing, the cooler young sun, and climate during the Dalton and Maunder minima.
In a January 25, 2010 pro-industry strategy proposal
to an Alberta government official, Whatley wrote that he was interested in «conducting a grassroots operation» in «target states» that would «generate
significant opposition
to discriminatory ow carbon fuels
standards» that were created
to address climate
change.
Significant changes to wind farm safety requirements are expected in the near future with the upcoming revisions
to the NFPA 70E
standard
If that is the
standard of abrupt
change, then is this abruptness historically
significant at all
to how people and eco-systems interact in a historical sense?
«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence
to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing
significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared
to the rates of
change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due
to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a
standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough
to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration
to rise
to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700
to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative
to such a disaster is
to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared
to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely
to reach at least 450
to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in
significant damage
to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy
to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.
And yet despite tougher building regs and a surge of interest in the passive house
standard there hasn't been any
significant palpable
change in our knowledge as an industry in terms of what thermal bridging actually is, what the regulations require us
to do when it comes
to accounting for thermal bridging in buildings, how we minimise thermal bridging effects at design stage, where it sits in the overall context of a BER or Sap assessment and so on.
These historic
standards represent the most
significant opportunity in years
to help curb the growing consequences of climate
change.
(It only became
standard practice
to associate a
significant site move with a
change in the identifying station number in the 1990s.
New powertrain designs, alternative fuels, advanced materials, and
significant changes to the vehicle body are being driven by increasingly stringent fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission
standards.
The
Standard defines «redeveloped» as «planned
significant or substantial
changes»
to public spaces but does not include «maintenance activities».
Sherrard thinks there'll be a
significant increase in employment
standards compliance work for employment lawyers, and he also expects more activity for labour lawyers providing services
to federally regulated employers in the wake of recent Canada Labour Code
changes.
The recommendations include additional enforcement mechanisms, increased fines for contravention of both the ESA and LRA,
changes to basic employment
standards (including
significant changes to the leave of absence provisions in the ESA), and extending bargaining rights
to certain employee groups currently exempt from the LRA.
We may, therefore, be seeing a
change in the approach
to sentencing in OH&S cases where jail sentences will be requested by Crown prosecutors and imposed more frequently by courts on individuals convicted of offences involving the breach of OH&S
standards, serious injuries or
significant incidents.
Re: lawyers practising in association with non-lawyers: - Absolutely necessary because: (1) technology will be the basis of almost all laws, therefore we will have
to practice with other experts in that technology; (2) records management law will be a major area of practice because, records are the most frequently used form of evidence and e-records depend for everything on their e-records management systems (ERMSs), and they must be compliant with the National
Standards of Canada for e-records management, which
standards require legal opinions, and every
significant change to an ERMS requires a legal opinion re ability
to produce records able
to satisfy laws as
to e-discovery, admissibility of evidence, privacy & access
to information, electronic commerce, tax laws, and compliance with National
Standards of Canada for e-records management; (3) all new technologies require a legal framework, which means more work for lawyers; and, (4) otherwise, other professions and service providers who now provide «legal information,» will begin
to provide «legal advice» and other services that only lawyers should be providing.
The legal profession should be helping the world move
to the day when having large ERMSs certified at least once per year, as being in compliance with the national
standard or with international
standards, is a routine part of e-records management, and whenever there is any
significant change to an ERMS; e.g., mergers and acquisitions making necessary the melding of two ERMSs into one.
Furthermore, in addition
to the governance measures applicable
to shareholding companies
to enhance the protection of the interests of the shareholders, CCL provides provisions
to apply certain corporate governance in all types of companies; this requires
significant changes in the duties and liabilities of the managers and partners, such as: the provision
to avoid any conflict of interests for the managers; the liability of the company for the actions of its employees; each company shall have an authorised auditor; each company must have annual accounts with commitment
to prepare annual financial accounts, including the balance sheet and profits and loss accounts, applying international accounting principles and
standards.