Sentences with phrase «voluntary cuts in»

While President Bush's recent public statements seem to indicate that he may also be falling for global warming junk science so far, he's only for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as «technology - based solutions.

That pact was abandoned by the U.S. Senate because it imposed emissions cuts on wealthy countries but let developing nations — including China — off the hook by allowing them to make voluntary cuts in exchange for financial support.

Not exact matches

Ford Motor said on Wednesday it plans to cut 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia through voluntary early retirement and other financial incentives as the No. 2 U.S. automaker looks to boost its sagging stock price.

The company expects most of the cuts to come from a voluntary early - retirement program it is offering in the United States.

The changes, which include changes to contribution caps and rules, transition to retirement and the pension transfer cap, have seen retirement savers rush to pad out their superannuation accounts with a surge in voluntary contributions ahead of the June cut - off.

The idea that voluntary forms of Christian religion are somehow closer to the original Christian meaning than are established churches cuts far too many corners, blurs far too many important distinctions, engages in too much special pleading, and ignores far too much history to be persuasive.

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High sodium consumption is associated with health problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease, and the FDA has put out new voluntary guidelines for commercial food producers to cut down on sodium in their products.

Whilst it is highly commendable and reassuring that the UK healthcare system has made such progress with implementing the Baby Friendly standards, recent staff shortages in maternity services, cuts to health visiting services and de-commissioning of voluntary sector support undermine this success.

There have been cuts to a wide range of services in the last 2 years: loss of national leads, local infant feeding leads, paid breastfeeding specialists, paid peer supporters, voluntary peer support services.

She added: «Because Eric Pickles and the government have chosen to hit councils with frontloaded cuts in the first year, far from liberating community groups, the voluntary sector and charities to do more, as the government promises, they may be so hampered they end up doing less.»

In Birmingham, the closure of the largest Citizens Advice Bureau as a result of the huge frontloaded cuts to local government is a foretaste of the coming onslaught on the voluntary sector.

The Commons» defence committee said it would be better to prioritise service personnel in the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) cuts over its civilian staff, whose redundancies will only be voluntary.

Later, in reply to a complaint from Labour MP Mary Glindon about cuts to the voluntary sector in her local council, the minister Greg Clark delivered a roll call of Tory councils that are dealing with the situation without such cuts:

You point out that Paterson took a voluntary 10 % pay cut for 2009, but neglect to mention that his wife received a $ 40,000 per year raise in 2009.

My council has spent more, in total, on grants to voluntary groups, while cutting spending elsewhere, because we believe the voluntary sector offers value for money.

In addition to scrapping the Common Core, Hawkins would improve schools by restoring aid cut during the state's economic downturn, encouraging desegregation through voluntary interdistrict transfers and returning curriculum decisions to local school boards.

Khan also warns that Ken Clarke's «rehabilitation revolution», which includes greater use of the voluntary sector and payment - by - results schemes, is seriously jeopardised by 25 % cuts in the justice ministry's budget.

Tough but voluntary requirements set by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment have helped cut brain - injury fatalities in all of football from 36 in 1968 to near zero in recent years.

The voluntary buyouts are intended to prepare the lab for a second round of automatic cuts that will occur in 2014 unless Congress agrees on another approach to reducing federal spending, say Oak Ridge Director Thom Mason.

The school's budget targets have resulted in 23 administrative and support staff being cut, 23 teachers have decided to resign, in addition to four voluntary redundancies and one compulsory redundancy,

The joint survey by the NEU and the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) also reveals the extent to which schools are stepping in to fill the gaps left by the cuts to statutory services and voluntary and community organisations.

, would cut off federal funds from school districts that bar individual, voluntary prayers in schools.

The survey also revealed the extent to which schools are stepping in to fill the gaps left by the cuts to statutory services and voluntary and community organisations.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

The school's budget targets have resulted in 23 administrative and support staff being cut already this year, and a further 23 teachers deciding to resign, along with four voluntary redundancies and one compulsory redundancy, and three temporary contracts which were not renewed, Martin Powell - Davies, London's NUT representative, told Schools Week.

It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation - building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization.Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines.

A voluntary pet food recall of more than 100 brands of dog food and cat food has been initiated by Menu Foods as of March 16th, 2007, following the deaths of thousands of cats and dogs and many more reports of kidney failure in pets after having eaten «Cuts and Gravy» - style wet pet foods made by Menu Foods.

On Thursday, the Obama administration announced a «comprehensive approach» to enlist American farmers in a voluntary effort to cut greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrogen oxides — through programs and incentives designed to reduce fertilizer use, encouraging tree planting, and turn poop into power by capturing methane.

This time, they have proposed a formula of «concentric differentiation» that sets out three main bands of responsibility: rich developed nations in the centre with large mandatory emission cuts, poorer nations on the outside with zero obligations and great flexibility, and emerging economies in the middle with a basket of options for significant voluntary reductions.

Bush last year abandoned a campaign pledge to seek mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and instead has advocated a series of voluntary measures.

More than 80 countries, including the US, EU and China, put forward voluntary emissions cuts in Copenhagen.

Q: Yesterday [24 January], the BASIC ministers [the group of environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India, and China] in New Delhi decided to give voluntary information to the United Nations on emissions intensity cuts.

In the end they could only agree to present national plans for voluntary cuts.

The company is in the midst of trying to cut its work force through voluntary buyouts even as it expands its global team to try to offer more legal products in other countries, Maess said.

«This is a positive step by Facebook to take the lead to put in place the transparency requirements called for in the Honest Ads Act, but a patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't going to cut it — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act,» she said in a statement.

Studies of one program, the Nurse Family Partnership, showed voluntary home visits cut instances of child abuse and neglect in half.

However, home - visiting programs offer a solution: In a long - term randomized controlled trial conducted over nearly two decades, the Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), a voluntary home visiting program, cut child abuse and neglect by 48 percent among participating families.