Sentences with phrase «targets by large corporations»

Most of the drop in share prices is due to weaker outlooks on profit and missed revenue targets by large corporations.

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The most disastrous development is that hackers are now funded by nations and groups, providing them with ample opportunities to hone their skills and target the largest corporations and even governments.

For example, market research might show that the target market is dominated by a few large and powerful corporations, which might make securing an initial market foothold prohibitively expensive.

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

Organized by GAPP, China's highest authority for the management of publishing (read: government approved), along with China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC), attending publishers from around the world will find a very targeted group of publishing houses and agents from China and Asia at large.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

South Texas, Louisiana and other states along the Gulf Coast are especially rich in natural resources, which makes this region a target for large - scale gas and oil operations, as well as corporations looking to profit from the mineral riches by drilling deep into the soil.