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, 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.»

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.»

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Once adopted, the remuneration of executive directors would have to be determined in accordance with the principles and criteria outlined in the policy, and any significant changes would have to be submitted to a new shareholder vote.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

After implementation of the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act, change was associated with significant improvement in the nutritional quality of foods chosen by students, as measured by increased mean adequacy ratio from a mean of 58.7 (range, 49.6 - 63.1) prior to policy implementation to 75.6 (range, 68.7 - 81.8) after policy implementation and decreased energy density from a mean of 1.65 (range, 1.53 - 1.82) to 1.44 (range, 1.29 - 1.61), respectively.

Combined with less off - street parking, which is something that the city has been encouraging but could be pursued more aggressively, these policy changes can have a significant impact on relieving traffic congestion.

If you have registered an account with us for a Service and we make significant changes in the Privacy Policy for that Service, we will attempt to notify you by sending an email to the address you have registered for your account.

Whilst it appears that the law has a long way to go and it is unlikely there will be any significant legislative changes in the near future, educational establishments should seriously consider reviewing and updating their existing policies and procedures relating to dealing with abuse in both a social media and face - to - face context, as well as offering training to their staff on how to deal with abuse.

With the significant policy changes over recent years, passing the management of the school to the senior management team in schools, it is interesting to see whether schools leave procurement decisions to the head teacher.

Now, a new study from researchers at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research suggests that effort led to positive growth in student achievement in English, with no significant changes in math.

With respect to the third option listed above, it is a significant change from past policies to explicitly allow states and LEAs to use their own family income surveys for purposes of school ranking and allocations under Title I. However, a major reason why use of such surveys has not been specifically authorized in the past is that they were rarely available.

«We also find that «F» - graded schools engaged in systematically different changes in instructional policies and practices as a consequence of school accountability pressure, and that these policy changes may explain a significant share of the test score improvements (in some subject areas) associated with «F» - grade receipt.»

As long as states play the lead role in education policy making, their actions will have significant implications for other actors with greater access to levers for change.

As students who have a particular need for and significant challenges with certain social and emotional competencies, youth with disabilities will be deeply impacted by changes in practice and policy that promote SEL.

In recent years, the landscape of law and policy regarding transition from school to post-school life for students with disabilities has changed in significant ways.

Hopefully, we can work with the Texas Education Agency in the implementation of this bill so as to mitigate its more damaging provisions, for this is a significant change for the entire K - 16 pipeline, with implications for higher education policy as well.

Below, we detail our significant concerns with this policy change.

The Education Redesign Lab will be positioned — with early research findings, design models, a constituency, and national visibility — to play a significant role in advocating for policy change at the local, state, and federal levels.

This is an interim year for NCTQ's State Teacher Policy Yearbook, but since there have been so many significant policy changes in the last year (as a result of the Race to the Top competition), the organization has released state - by - state Blueprint for Change reports with 2010 upPolicy Yearbook, but since there have been so many significant policy changes in the last year (as a result of the Race to the Top competition), the organization has released state - by - state Blueprint for Change reports with 2010 uppolicy changes in the last year (as a result of the Race to the Top competition), the organization has released state - by - state Blueprint for Change reports with 2010 updates.

With a new incoming president and continued work towards implementation of ESSA, 2017 is sure to be a year of significant changes in the world of education policy.

For about a dozen states, including Tennessee, those changes began with the administration's signature competitive grant, Race to the Top, which offered states a piece of a $ 4.35 billion pie in exchange for adopting a range of significant education policy changes.

With a new administration coming into office, and a number of significant potential changes regarding health care and taxes on the docket, my theory was that changing policies would bring about great uncertainty and higher market volatility.

The central bank is keeping its key interest rate in place with the Canadian economy showing signs of improvement — but it also warns of the significant uncertainty tied to potential policy changes by the United States, its largest trading partner.

The change: While cancellation policies vary by hotel, hotels whose policy is to allow guests to cancel their room reservations on the day before arrival without incurring a fee are faced with a significant number of unsold rooms due to last minute cancellations.

«Ultimately, of course, you will need to bring us along with you to achieve significant policy change... Is that the goal of this website?»

A number of natural climate cycles are excluded, even though these cycles produce significant changes in temperatures,» Executive Vice President Ken Haapala with the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) told The New American earlier this year.

The one significant book on the subject I've come across (and I haven't looked exhaustively, so please enlighten me if there is more out there) The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy aChange: Power Knowledge Norms Discourses, ME Pettenger really deals only with the question of how climate change advocacy fails to capture the policy achange advocacy fails to capture the policy agenda.

Climate policy is expected to induce a significant change in investment pattern in all scenarios compatible with a 2 °C limit.

The decisions must be made with: (1) a recognition of ambiguity and, (2) an acknowledgement that unless policies are, essentially, to be dictated by either extreme climate change or a lack of climate change over an extended period of time (so as to make any concerns about significant climate change invalid)-- affirmative policies must be made in a context where oppositional points of view are accommodated.

In short, we will argue improvement is possible in how IPCC deals with ethics, justice, and equity issues entailed by climate change policy - making despite very significant improvements on these matters in the AR5 report compared to prior IPCC reports.

The workshop focused the discussion on climate communication with diverse U.S. constituencies, and the challenge of building awareness among the disengaged and the unconvinced that climate change is occurring due to human causes, poses significant risks to our well - being, and can be addressed through changes in energy technologies, public policies, and the actions of individuals.

On the face of it, such policy changes might represent a significant challenge to an industry that is still competing with massive incumbents on a far from level playing field.

In this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations responsible for the full costs of their products.

These cases strongly underscore the importance of obtaining employment advice in advance concerning company policies and procedures in connection with promotions, demotions, and significant salary changes of employees with non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.

On Monday, the powers - that - be at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the group that is tasked with keeping the Internet «secure, stable and interoperable» and that develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers) voted in favor of a significant change in the Internet's Domain Name System.

One of the most significant changes in the time from the older policy document is the Supreme Court of Canada's 2004 decision in Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, dealing with the use of tabernacles during the Jewish festival of Succoth.

That type of change might appear to coincide with the Conservative government's interests, but given that the government has just recently introduced these fairly significant reforms to EI, and is not prone to make great policy leaps, I don't imagine we'll be seeing much more discussion in Parliament on any of these recommendations.

When you review the proposal with your agent, look for the guaranteed interest crediting rate, any premium changes throughout the lifetime of the policy, any fees or other charges that may be a part of the policy, and the illustrated value of the policy at the points in time significant to you.

During the course of this long policy tenure, you may need to get in touch with your insurer for various purposes like updating details about significant changes in your life, making a fund switch or any other query on the product.

A very significant change in the evolution of Health Insurance in India was brought about in October 2013, with the introduction of the Guaranteed Renewability of Health Insurance Policies in India for life with continuity benefits.

As a highly credible talented and savvy Washington insider with significant contacts on the «hill» that can be leveraged, I have had the opportunity to plan, develop, accomplish, and showcase major initiatives that drove policy change and represented significant role in supporting climate change war activities that involved national and international participants.

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The experience of MLDRIN in negotiating with governments about significant degradation of the Murray - Darling River Basin will be crucial to the national dialogue about water and climate change policy development.

As students who have a particular need for and significant challenges with certain social and emotional competencies, youth with disabilities will be deeply impacted by changes in practice and policy that promote SEL.

«The impact of the new tax code on the housing market has been heavily studied and debated in academic, policy and political circles, with most agreeing that the changes remove any significant tax differences between homeowners and renters for the majority of U.S. households,» First American Chief Economist Mark Fleming said in a release.