Sentences with phrase «what's a president»

He then was president of Keurig's Canadian operations before joining DavidsTea last May.

Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein became the first major Wall Street leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's order to halt arrivals from several Muslim - majority countries.

• Kenneth Chan joined Macquarie Group as a senior vice president, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He was soon appointed president of the company's Canadian wing, where he was also responsible for sourcing seaweed around the globe.

To complicate matters, President Donald Trump's federal hiring freeze may hit veterans hardest.

«We are acting with a renewed sense of energy and purpose to turn our business around,» Steve Easterbrook, the company's newly appointed president and CEO said in a statement on Wednesday.

It's doubtful president - elect Donald Trump will honour the commitment; on the campaign trail, he raised the possibility of dismantling America's Environmental Protection Agency altogether.

This week, Trump adviser and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recommended that the president should give up on holding press briefings at all.

There are many reasons to dislike the alternative minimum tax, which President Donald Trump has proposed to repeal in his current tax plan.

Raising the minimum wage also featured prominently in the president's State of the Union address in January.

The White House is downplaying rumors of Gary Cohn's departure, after the chief economic advisor got overruled on President Donald Trump's decision to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Under President Obama, these efforts led to the removal of a disproportionate number of Latino immigrants.

Whispered questions among business leaders over the weekend produced no clear consensus on what to say about the President Trump's immigration order in public.

He started working at the iconic retail behemoth in 1969, holding positions from senior vice president to general counsel to chairman, a role he stepped down from in June after 23 years on the job.

President Donald Trump this month imposed sanctions on Rusal, Russia's biggest aluminum producer, and some other companies, in response to Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

But a dramatic improvement in relations between Pyongyang and China, with a secretive Beijing visit by the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in late March, followed by last week's historic inter-Korean summit and an upcoming meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, has caught the notice of some opportunistic investors.

NEW YORK, April 27 (Reuters)- Friday's historic pledge by the leaders of the two Koreas to work to denuclearize the Korean peninsula should give U.S. President Donald Trump a stronger hand to renegotiate the treaty curtailing Iran's nuclear program, Israel's intelligence minister said.

Following the talk by Rice in Beijing this fall, GE hosted a panel whose speakers included Joachim von Amsberg, a World Bank veteran who is now a vice president at the new AIIB, and China's former vice minister of foreign affairs, He Yafei.

«It's about bringing the resources of Google to bear to build the digital assistant ecosystem,» says Nick Fox, a vice president in Google's Search and Assistant business unit.

The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

He noted that he expects there to be a «more positive U.S. manufacturing business environment under President - elect Trump,» but he said he «absolutely» would have done the same thing if Trump had not been elected.

Mueller's office has been in negotiations with Trump's personal lawyers about interviewing the president since late last year.

Even farther back, the Post published the Pentagon Papers — classified documents on the war in Vietnam that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg — and it also published information it got from an administration source about the Watergate break - ins and the connection to President Richard Nixon.

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

«We're a bit hesitant on the ability of [President - elect Donald] Trump to, one, get legislation passed in the time frame that the market is expecting and, two, the impact of that legislation if and when it is passed,» says the global macro strategist for Pavilion Global Markets in Montreal.

«The Philippines has found a way to pay tribute to our president,» said Kathleen Clark, a government ethics...

Belt and Road's political elements were evident in late October when brash Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has disparaged both President Obama and Pope Francis in his bid to push the Philippines away from old alliances, visited China to get in Xi's good graces.

However, President - Elect Trump has publicly stated that he will not stand in the way of state legalization of marijuana,» says Thorburn.

Lockheed came under fire from then - President - elect Donald Trump in late 2016, when he slammed the program as too expensive.

It's not entirely clear how many visas the new guidelines may affect, but the move comes as President Trump has threatened to overhaul the entire H - 1B visa system.

The moves came after President Donald Trump tweeted a threat about the U.S. military launching missiles strikes against Syria.

Will President Obama's proposed $ 50 billion in funding for fixing roads, bridges, rail lines and airports be enough?

Black Panther was going to go with or without me, but the film that I wanted to make was something that [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige and Disney and those guys got behind.

Diane Gherson, IBM senior vice president of human resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need,» according to a memo IBM sent to Fortune.

«What has upset business owners more than anything are the comparisons made between the income of small business owners and that of employees,» Dan Kelly, the federation's president, said in an op - ed published at the Huffington Post on Aug. 25.

South Korea's president said Kim essentially wants nothing in return for denuclearization, a highly unusual claim.

A Google Chrome extension lets users filter out web pages mentioning the President.

President Obama will take the stage at SXSW Interactive on March 11 to discuss civic engagement in today's tech - intense society.

-- Peter Twiss, vice president and co-founder of the Motiv Ring, a wearable activity and sleep tracking device

«What this has done is really allowed for more pools of money to be available to entrepreneurs, so that's the really big news about all of this,» says Geri Stengel, founder and president of Ventureneer, a digital media and market research company that, among other issues, specializes in crowdfunding.

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump may pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.

The United States could lose up to 700,000 jobs and suffer billions of dollars in lost economic output if President Donald Trump ends a program granting work permits to the children of undocumented immigrants, a new report finds.

The South Koreans, in turn, are rattled by President Trump's wild swings from school - yard taunting to bromantic fawning over Kim, and so are pursuing rapprochement on their own.

In 2013, Diamonte was appointed by President Barack Obama and currently serves as chair of the advisory committee for Pension Benefit Guaranty.

• BelHealth Investment Partners promoted Paul Barrett to managing director, Rebecca Yu to vice president and Peter Gurny to senior associate.

He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president) by doing a number of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his views.

Jan. 27, 2017: At one - on - one dinner at the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fired.

Joe Hinrichs, head of the Americas since December 2012, will manage global product development, manufacturing and labor affairs, purchasing, and environmental and safety engineering, while Marcy Klevorn, vice president of information technology and chief technical officer since January, will oversee Hackett's Ford Smart Mobility.

Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President - elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.