Sentences with phrase «trade groups like»

Perhaps it's up to trade groups like FIDIC to offer automated contract creation, with serious technology and extensively customized content.
The article paints a picture of an aggressive campaign by industry lobbyists and heavyweight trade groups like the American Petroleum Institute that began soon after it became clear that Ms. Jackson was determined to tighten the rules governing allowable ozone levels across the country.
It is clear that the Sunday news talk shows are predominately sponsored by high carbon brands - either specific oil companies Shell, ExxonMobil and BP or by industry trade groups like EnergyTomorrow or API.
If you want to know what's really going on with these technologies — e.g. the state of the art of mainstream technology that's being deployed on large scales today, the new developments and breakthroughs that have the potential to produce even more renewable energy at ever lower cost, the major projects that are now being built or are planned all over the world — then please take advantage of the numerous online resources offered by trade groups like AWEA, or manufacturers, or business - oriented publications that track the renewable energy industry to educate yourself.
Major corporations and trade groups like Nucor, Pfizer, Reynolds American Inc., and Phrma continue to fund the Heartland Institute.
Industry trade groups like the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have come out against state - run plans, arguing that they will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.
Industry trade groups like ICI have taken issue with the DOL's plan to boost workers» access to retirement plans through state - run programs, arguing that such plans will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.
Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.
So - called self - regulatory organizations like the National Association of Securities Dealers are relatively toothless; trade groups like the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants stubbornly protect their own.
The numbers underscore why major health industry trade groups like the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association, and others have all endorsed legislative reforms they believe can help turn the tide against gun violence.
See also: Craigslist «FREE STUFF» section or local trading groups like Freecycle.

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Mark Merritt, CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), a trade group representing the 10 largest traditional PBMs, says that while «drug prices have gone up more than we'd like» over the years, his members have saved employers 25 %.
The Internet Association, a trade group that represents tech and video companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix, had said last week that while Pai doesn't always side with the internet industry, «he is both thoughtful and willing to listen.»
This group acted more altruistically after their exposure, which indicates that being reminded of issues like energy use or fair trade does increase people's feelings of responsibility — but that acting on those feelings risks cancelling them out.
Trade associations and like groups are usually terribly underfunded.
At the time, the trade group also said it planned to combat municipal proposals like Seattle's and those expected in Chicago and Long Beach, Calif..
Last year, Airlines for America, a trade group representing United and other large U.S. airlines, included the reporting requirements of animal deaths or injuries among those federal rules it would like to see repealed or changed.
Between June 2010 and May 2011, Crossroads GPS spent about $ 42.3 million, including about $ 15.9 million directly for political ads and another $ 15.9 million on grants to 12 like - minded nonprofits and trade groups.
«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.
But the links between groups like the Flores brothers and street - level gangs responsible for much of the drug sales and violence in Chicago are a «gray area» of the drug trade, both law enforcement and gang members have said.
To put that in perspective, that's about twice the average of the rest of the firms in its specialty retail group, and even greater than buzzworthy tech companies like Apple and Google that trade at about 14 and 16 times, respectively.
The market implicitly does determine the answer to these questions, like the trade - off between the present and the future, or the different values it places on the needs of different social groups.
They're hoping to remind him that while steel and aluminum producers and his most die - hard supporters might support the tariffs, many other groups that are important to his political fortunes, like automakers and large swaths of corporate America that rely on international trade, are strongly opposed to them.
Increased internet speeds, smartphone uptake, cheap data costs, and digital innovation also lower the barriers to entry into unregulated economic transactions, where consumer products and services are traded on interest - based groups like WhatsApp and Facebook.
Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE: PRU) is not like Metlife Inc (NYSE: MET), but the whole group traded lower because of the bad news about Metlife.
Ad hoc actions were taken by Mr. Paulson and officials at the Federal Reserve, like letting Lehman fail and compensating the trading partners of the American International Group.
The group also wants to emphasize trucking as an essential cog in the wheel of the U.S. economy, which the new administration is focused on growing, and see that any changes to trade agreements like NAFTA — which also clearly would affect the U.S. trucking industry and many other businesses — are made with all due consideration.
Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups.
Trade groups representing automakers including General Motors Co. and Toyota, plus parts suppliers like Robert Bosch GmbH, tried to warn the Trump administration of unintended consequences before the president said Thursday he plans to order tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum.
«We've probably never had a situation like we have today, where the demand is strong and capacity is constrained,» Bob Costello, chief economist of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), a trade group representing trucking companies told USA Today.
As a 501 (c)(6) membership - based non-profit trade group, we seek to encourage the research and development of new products made from industrial hemp while offering our members a network of like - minded, trusted individuals within the current hemp industry.
Two of the groups involved are the Ontario Energy Association — whose members include publicly traded companies like Enbridge Inc., Hydro One Ltd. and TransCanada Corp. — and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, which represents more than 10,000 firms across the country.
Stock trading is increasing among this age group, with many millennials investing in their favorite brands, like Nike and Apple.
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So one group of fraudsters joins another, puts their resources together to come up with a deceptive plan to put before the trading public, launches it out there and draws new traders in like bees to honey, and makes out like bandits with the deposited money.
The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.
Some faith groups, like the United Methodist Committee on Relief, are using Halloween as an opportunity to promote justice and fair - trade by joining Equal Exchange, a cooperative that sells fairly...
Our writers believe in constant «study» both formally, through certifications like CWAS, WSET and ISG, and informal tastings sponsored by trade groups and individual producers.
With speakers who are some of the industry's biggest names like Jean - Marie Arnaud, General Director OIV; David Richardson; Regulatory & Commercial Affairs Director, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA); Andrew Catchpole, Editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine and The Drinks Wholesaler; Andrew Shaw, Group Wine Buying Director, Conviviality PLC; Florian Ceschi, Director, Ciatti Europe, and many other prominent industry representatives, this is not a conference worth missing.
Like most forest - dependent groups, these communities have a tremendous knowledge of biodiversity, and their harvesting of forest products for consumption and / or trade generates critical household income and provides them with an opportunity for sustainable economic growth.
However, if you'd like to trade services I'm completely open, or if you are a part of any non-profit group, agency or start - up that directly benefits people through food education or assistance than I am your man!
We are also living the age of local BTS (Buy Trade Sell) groups on sites like Facebook or awesome consignment sites like ThredUp.
While the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics» 74,000 - member trade group partners with the likes of Coke and Hershey's, the nation's health continues to suffer from poor diet.
The trade group, which represents formula giants like Nestlé and Danone on an EU - level, said it had not yet seen evidence or data demonstrating that reducing mothers» and caregivers» access to information has a positive impact on public health.
Naturally, the session attracted a group of like - minded changemakers and social media enthusiasts, all eager to learn the latest tricks of the trade and to catch a healthy dose of creative inspiration from some of the foremost experts in the progressive digital space.
It remains to be seen how much Ms. Crowley's union backing helps her, since groups like the firefighters and the building trades are less experienced with carrying petitions in order to get on the ballot.
[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.
He is shown standing at 1 World Trade Center and in recent weeks has sought to assert his foreign policy credentials by pledging an aggressive posture on terrorist groups like ISIS.
When it was a large group of countries negotiating it was difficult for the US to make demands like lowering beef tariffs, but when it is just the US and Japan and the US can use other areas of trade as bargaining chips, it becomes much harder for Japan to resist.
He refuses every interview request from groups like the Howard League, while popping up all over the TV and radio this morning to chunter on about trade unions.
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