Sentences with phrase «talk of cuts»

Our key task in this parliament is to ensure that the glint that appears in George Osborne's eye whenever there is talk of cuts in public services never becomes more than that.

We are already seeing, amid all the talk of cuts and austerity, that services for the mentally ill are being cut, without the outcry that would greet a similar approach to cancer or children's services.

Labour could not even retain support among public sector workers, following much talk of cuts over the conference season.

If he doesn't have a great year next year then the talk of cutting him may start to gain steam.

My council tax is going up and Labour are talking of cutting what benefits I get, I've problems I can not even get my wheelchair repaired, yet we are asked to look at labour again I have and it's a right wing Thatcherite party.

The Prime Minister talks of cutting the cost of politics, but while he is cutting the number of MPs he is increasing the Lords, which will eat into whatever money is saved.

It is worrying to hear Conservatives talk of cutting the BBC down to size, or Labour proposals to «top slice» the BBC licence fee as a way of funding the IFNCs.

The UK's successes in the Emmy awards make a nonsense of talk of cutting back the BBC and selling off Channel 4

There also is talk of cutting the salaries of district employees, according to the association.

At Copenhagen, politicians talk of cutting carbon emissions, but they can't meet any targets without rare earth, and that means a sustainable supply, and not all from China.

There were many others — for example email 1225026120.txt where one of them talks of cutting points off the temperature curve, for a public talk, because the curve is trending down.

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There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

There has been talk that former CEO Tom Freston might return to the helm of the company, although he said in a recent interview — in which he criticized Dauman's performance — that he has not cut any deals with Shari Redstone or her father.

That's why this is one of the few cutting - edge technologies that is generating a lot of talk but not a lot of action among banks.

The final version of the talking points shows what happened: Just about everything was cut, leaving virtually nothing.

Users complain that they're tired of being talked down to, tired of being made to feel like idiots, tired of absurd rules, tired of machines that break, tired of IT support that cuts out at 5 p.m. — when they're expected to work around the clock.

For now, the group is cutting ever deeper, and Saudi Arabia's Al - Falih chided nations that haven't been implementing their fair share of the curbs at the opening session of the Jeddah talks.

For our series»20 Questions» Ryan Holmes, CEO and co-founder of Hootsuite, talks about his method for cutting jargon out of emails, how exercise helps him focus and more.

There's a lot of talk about cord - cutting these days, but almost no mention of how the shift toward internet - delivered television might be affecting rural households.

Kenny Dichter, Wheels Up CEO talks about providing private aviation to travelers, the impact of the tax cut on his business, and the launch of the «Red Plane.»

Observe how often the person you are talking to cuts you off before you have finished your thought,» suggests the post, adding that «you will be surprised to discover that most of the time, people reply to your comments either right before you finish talking, or immediately after.»

«When people go into a Whole Foods, they want to talk to the butcher about what cut of meat to buy, or the florist about what flower arrangement they need, or the produce clerk about which is the freshest head of lettuce,» says Erikka Knuti, communications director for the United Food and Commercial Workers.

She was sticking to the questions her staff had prepared for her (generally good practice for freshman senators when talking to Greenspan), when all of a sudden she thought she had this brilliant insight that would support her position that tax cuts are bad.

At the same time, members of the GOP are already talking about cutting welfare and other social programs next, and there are signs that they'll be doing so at a bad time.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

In the short - but - punchy talk that was recently recommended on both the blogs of both top VC Brad Feld and prominent angel investor Joanne Wilson, Forman offers a handful of tips to companies that want to both make themselves appealing to that vast pool of talent that actually wants a life outside work, and get up to date on cutting - edge people management practices, including:

The product of intensive talks before lawmakers left Washington for Christmas, the budget deal alleviates the harshest effects of automatic budget cuts on the Pentagon and domestic agencies.

And all that talk about the end of cloud price cuts?

Disney CEO Bob Iger spent much of his time on the earnings call talking about ESPN, and about how he doesn't see much impact from cord cutting for at least the next five years or so — an estimate that at least some analysts think is absurdly optimistic.

In the wake of OPEC's output cut, Novak also talked about Russia's cooperation in the process, calling the coordination between OPEC and Non-OPEC producers historic.

The AT&T - Time Warner deal announcement touts «a combination unlike any other,» «a perfect match of two companies with complementary strengths,» and a billion dollars a year worth of «synergies,» which is how business people talk about cost - cutting.

European Union leaders reached agreement on the first ever cut in their common budget on Friday after 24 hours of talks, seeking to placate millions at home struggling through government cutbacks and recession.

It's interactive, and the person you're talking to at least knows you didn't just cut and paste the same message to hundreds of others.

Carlisle also asks candidates to talk of a time they really screwed up — and that whole spin - your - weaknesses - into - strengths strategy won't cut it.

In an interview with Fortune, one of Google Brain's co-founders and leaders, Jeff Dean, talks about cutting - edge AI research, the challenges involved, and using AI in its products.

Meanwhile, constant talk of the sequester and spending cuts here in the U.S. only add to that edge.

While some businesses were talking about cutting employee hours because of the ACA, this client decided to test flipping its workforce from 30 percent full - time and 70 percent part - time employees to 70 percent full - time and 30 percent part - time, she says.

Following the surprise Bank of Canada interest - rate cut we, along with our colleagues at Maclean's and MoneySense assembled our panel of experts to talk about what it means for businesses and individuals.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

The deal, agreed to on Monday after 17 hours of talks with eurozone leaders, contains tough conditions including pension cuts, tax increases and the movement of public assets into a trust fund to pay for the recapitalisation of Greek banks.

All this talk about higher stages of consciousness is fine, but even gung - ho Tealiocrats like Kirby are unwilling to live on the bleeding edge if they have to take a pay cut.

And we're not just talking about U.S. companies potentially being cut - out of exciting new projects in Brazil, either.

Unless, of course, you are talking about the families of the wealthy and privileged who have received about 70 per cent of federal personal tax cuts over the past 10 years.

So much so that recently, when new Google CFO Ruth Porat used terms like «transparency» and talked of cost cutting on its recent earnings call, the stock jumped high.

But top to bottom, Obama to congressman, all talk was of a grand bargain to cut the deficit, and were left playing defense.

But better products and inventory management, two of retailers» most talked - about tools for keeping prices high over the holidays, have to compete with buyers» memories of years of price cuts of 50 percent or more.

I was talking to this investor about the cleantech sector, but was quickly cut off and told that they invest only in the Internet of Things.

Now there are many talking heads on the mainstream media saying that due to the outcome of Brexit, the Federal Reserve or specifically Janet Yellen would use it as a perfect excuse to cut rates back to zero.

Meanwhile, as reported yesterday, Iran and Iraq continued to express objections to cutting their own supply during the lengthy meeting of OPEC officials Monday, as talks failed to bridge differences, one delegate said.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.