Sentences with phrase «spend against the department»

That transformation is already delivering results: the team has recovered more than # 2m in compensation that the business had previously written off as unrecoverable, pursued underpayments for services (including # 1.3 m in just two sites), saved almost half a million pounds through fraud detection and helped the company with a strategic acquisition of a large US parcel handler, all while reducing spend against the department's budget.

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Steve Ward, who spent seven years as an officer with the Seattle Police Department and six with the city's SWAT team, says he founded Seattle - based VieVu in 2007 to protect officers against unfounded civilian complaints.

Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the Department of Justice, cautioned against painting the identity of Person A with too broad a brush.

The Treasury Department says this type of annuity «can provide a cost - effective solution for retirees willing to use part of their savings to protect against outliving the rest of their assets, and can also help them avoid overcompensating by unnecessarily limiting their spending in retirement.»

Given the looming March 1 deadline for across - the - board sequestration which would reduce State Department operations by $ 850 million and foreign assistance by $ 1.7 billion, the US» chief diplomat used his speech to defend the foreign policy budget against spending cuts, portraying foreign affairs as the guarantor of American economic prosperity.

She voted against the federal spending bill for the Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related agencies, and split with the party on 22 related amendments.

The public accounts committee warned that officials at the Department for International Development had failed to lay out their plans for mitigating against malpractise in the fragile states where the UK's aid budget is to be spent.

Washington (CNN) The House Oversight Committee is requesting information from Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson over lavish spending on office redecoration and allegations that he retaliated against one of his employees who refused to spend more than was legally allowed.

The Empire State Development Corp. on Tuesday pushed back against an audit released last week by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that was critical of the way $ 22 million in tourism funding was spent for areas impacted by storms.

This work includes making sure that departments include specific open data commitments in their business plans, regularly publishing open data sets on central and local government spending, senior staff salary details and how the government is performing against objectives.

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The Judgement - or J - value, a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment that has recently been validated against pan-national data, would value life about four times higher, closer to the value used by the US Department of Transportation ($ 9.1 million in 2012).

They need to be negotiating against people who are skeptical of the U.S. Department of Education's existence, not people who think spending more money on a set of programs reorganized into fewer boxes is a win.

While consumers and industry watchers alike have spent a fair amount of time waiting eagerly to see how the ruling handed down against Apple for anti-trust violations would actually impact the publishing industry, the tech company has made a statement of its own asserting that the decision by Judge Denise Cote in the case brought against them by the Department of Justice is overly punitive and harsh.

Collecting and analyzing historical metrics on spend and efficiency will be a powerful tool in the fight against the data surge, but these departments should not have to do all the heavy lifting alone.

As Canadian corporate legal departments continue to grow in size, collecting data about spending and benchmarking against how others perform is becoming «table stakes,» a room of in - house lawyers heard Monday.

Exploring issues, including data security, technology adoption, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure («FRCP») and retention policies, the study enables in - house counsel to appraise their department's size, procedures, spending and workflows against the industry standard.

BENEFITS: • Quicker payments to law firm • Improves productivity as less time is spent submitting and following up on invoices • Expedites invoice review and processing with e-billing practices and automatic adjustments to match agreed - upon billing guidelines • Easy to track matter billings against budgets • Facilitates closer collaboration and better communication with in - house legal departments

Unlike law firms, which operate as revenue - raising profit centers, corporate legal departments are cost centers, spending corporate dollars to defend lawsuits filed against the company, negotiate business transactions and perform a wide range of legal services on behalf of the parent corporation and its business entities.

Even as the role of legal operations departments are expanding, companies are increasingly looking for ways to cut their legal spend, and that means using metrics to measure what is efficient against what isn't and how well and how widely the current technology implemented is being used.