Sentences with phrase «very federal system»

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Under some very specific guidelines, Federal regulators have given Amazon, along with insurance companies, permission to use small unmanned aircraft systems.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

A combination of bad economic news from Germany, hawkish comments from key Federal Reserve committee members that appeared to contravene Janet Yellen's doctrine, and the continued bullish endeavours of the markets ensured that the dollar started this week in a very similar position to last, as demonstrated by the chart (from IG's global forex trading system) that shows AUD, GBP and EUR retracing gains made on Wednesday October 8 by Sunday 12..

«We still have a very fragile financial system,» said Sheila Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., who was in Baltimore last week to speak at University of Baltimore's Merrick School of Business.

From this perspective, the Swiss system in which all the main parties share power at the federal level since 50 + years feels very undemocratic.

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«The federal system is very limited, right?

In fact, whatever else he may achieve in his pursuit of the presidency, the former Louisiana congressman and governor may be remembered as the last presidential candidate to ever receive federal matching funds; the very fact that he is the only candidate seeking and collecting those funds this year prima facie evidence that the public financing system for presidential elections is already functionally dead.

«the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.»

But, the compensation system for federal judges in the United States creates a very powerful economic incentive to retire at a reasonable retirement age by virtue of how the defined benefit pension plan works, that most judges assent to not long after reaching that age.

It has become a very effective group in parliament, according to Adams, meeting regularly with advocates for postsecondary and research interests (such as the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Canadian Association of Physicists, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences) and assisting them in communicating their views within the federal system.

It didn't happen - and in the meantime, as the system grew, very little was done at the federal level to empower families or any others served by the system.

What became clear from the mark - up is that there's very little support in Congress for federal oversight of state accountability systems.

The district «has been very alert in terms of complying with federal requirements» concerning inspection of school buildings, said Robert E. Sweeney, one of the system's lawyers.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

(What's «federal» is that Scotland has long run its own education system and does so very differently from England — and Wales and Northern Ireland now do likewise.)

The second option — devolving recently accumulated federal power to the states — underlies recent reauthorization proposals for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that allow each state to establish its own accountability system and that require teeth only for the very lowest - performing schools.

In contrast to the byzantine system of federal and state financial aid programs, free college is a very easy concept to understand.

Following over a decade of strong federal accountability structures, states are now embarking on the creation of new state - designed accountability systems, possibly featuring very different strategies from recent years and from each other.

You'd think the respondents would be more concerned about that, given their very negative take on Washington's efforts to improve teacher evaluation — with 81 % strongly believing that federal policy should not «support teacher evaluation systems that rely significantly on» student test scores.

States could have eviscerated their accountability systems, doing the bare minimum under the federal law by identifying their very worst schools, and staying mum about the other 90 or 95 percent.

d. State longitudinal data systems and a massive increase in state and federal gathering of private family, education, and psychological data on our children without consent e. Career - tracking, which undermines self - determination by means of an insistence on student compliance with the very flawed standards and subjective, unconstitutional psychological profiling f. Again, according to Education Week, the opt - out amendment that passed the House has been removed.

Though the role of the federal government would be curtailed, there are some very important national functions that must be served in a modern education system.

It sounds as if the private teacher preparation system in Texas comes very close to the scandalous and very expensive (to students, parents, and the federal government - through very high default rates on guaranteed student loans) «private college» system which is currently being forced to clean up its act.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

It was a year ago and a week that Gov. Chris Christie fired Bret Schundler as his education commissioner over what was a mishap on the state's failed application for federal Race to the Top money, a grant that aimed to put in place this very evaluation system statewide.

This, I would agree is something that is very positive that has come out of the nation's policy - based focus on its «new and improved» teacher evaluation systems, again, as largely required by the federal government, especially pre-Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The need for student loans has also created a very lucrative market for the private lenders and banks who, until 2010, profited from guarantees through the federal student loan system and who are benefiting today from the demand for financing beyond the federal loan program.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association proposal for a very weak federal system is going nowhere.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

«The federal Pacer system shows that Mr. Trenkler has been represented in a number of proceedings in federal court over the last seventeen years by very competent counsel who (I am assuming from your correspondence) have not chosen to pursue further the issue you raise of inducements supposedly offered by prosecutors to the witness,» Vecchione wrote.

Judicial selection in Massachusetts is very close to the federal - style system of nomination / confirmation / life appointment.

As I long ago discussed here and here, this is practically a very important issue that needs to settled in order to have a uniform and consistent federal sentencing system.

We are very familiar with our client's legal rights, current drug laws, including both the state and federal criminal court systems.

The absence of a Justice Department representative was both telling and disappointing, especially because it is very hard to predict how federal prosecutors would view proposals to abolish the US Sentencing Commission or to have a Blakely - compliant mandatory guideline system.

[13] Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court of Australia summarised the ethical issues which arise as a result of the conflict the billable hours system creates between the economic pressure on a firm to maximise its profit and the ethical pressure on lawyers to work in their client's best interest: «Only a very slight change of focus needs to be made by a lawyer to change from (a) expecting a profitable return from running as well and efficiently as possible a large case in court, to (b) planning how to make as much money as possible from running the same large case in court.»

The truth is, that there is very little about Scooter Libby's case that differs from other run of the mill white collar cases under the federal system.

The federal system is very different from the state system.

Unfortunately, AVVO takes a very arrogant and superior approach to these issues because its silly rating system was given First Amendment protection by a federal judge who openly noted how ridiculous lawyer rating sites truly are.

It's «incredible» there was no system in place to allow the federal government to recall a dangerous vehicle until very recently, Barrie - area personal injury... Read more

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

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«We were used to the traditional, hands - on approach to municipal construction, so this was very different,» Claudia Pooli, a solicitor with the City of Edmonton, says of the Alberta capital's first P3 project, a light rail transit system that's being built with participation from three levels of government: municipal, provincial and federal.

Mr. Bennett is an excellent defense attorney who is very knowledgeable and established in the Federal justice system.

To make a very long story short, Mr. Williams got in a great deal of trouble and was - for all intents and purposes - «run outa town» by the Federal judicial system and those who saw through his smoke and mirrors scheme.

He stole the thunder from the world's biggest Federal Reserve Bank in those moments of glory at the same time as raising more awareness about the very real transparency of the blockchain and bitcoin system.

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