The lack of national consensus on NASA's most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along
with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding.»
Not exact matches
Morneau's comments came after he met
with private sector economists in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade Agreement to global economic
uncertainty ahead of the federal
budget on Feb. 27.
The finance minister was tight - lipped Friday about the upcoming
budget but said the discussion
with economists touched on the
uncertainty around NAFTA renegotiations and the impact of changes to U.S. tax rates on the Canadian economy.
Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global
uncertainties, together
with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced
budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.
«Balancing the
budget for a fourth year in a row --- while other provinces grapple
with debt, deficits, and economic
uncertainty — is an accomplishment that gives the business community reassurance that B.C. is on the correct course,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade.
It is now pretty obvious that the delay in the
budget to April 21 had nothing to do
with uncertainty resulting from the dramatic decline on oil prices.
We have not included the April 2015
Budget / Parliamentary
Budget Officer's forecasts of the surplus over the next four years, given the
uncertainties with respect to the current economic environment.
Apart from the
uncertainty associated
with the risks noted above and the lack of credible prudence in the
budget projections, we continue to believe that the forecast for «other revenues» is overstated and that for «direct program expenses» is understated.
Given the current
uncertainty, Fonterra has advised its farmer owners «to continue to be cautious
with budgeting.»
New York is short $ 4.4 billion, and there's
uncertainty over federal policies, including the overhaul of the tax code, that could leave the state
with even a bigger
budget hole in the future.
A spokesman for the governor clarified that Cuomo is still committed to completing the
budget by the deadline, even
with the
uncertainty.
With just over a week to go before the
budget deadline, Cuomo for the first time hinted that the spending plan might not be completed on time because of the
uncertainty about future federal funding.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to fight back against Washington Republicans on Tuesday
with a $ 168 billion state
budget proposal that lays out spending on schools and mass transit while also confronting greater
uncertainty in federal funding.
Around a quarter of the 29 finance directors surveyed expressed
uncertainty or concern over maintaining clinical standards and three suggested they could end the year
with a
budget deficit.
The governor says the
budget gap, combined
with uncertainties in funding from Washington, leaves him
with little choice than to raise some taxes.
For AQE, which is pushing for education spending on par
with a decade - old court ruling, the problem for them was Cuomo suggesting a short - term extender may be a viable option for the state
budget considering the
uncertainty emanating from Washington over the federal government's
budget cuts.
Cuomo says
with a multi-billion dollar
budget deficit, and
uncertainties in funding from Washington, spending needs to be lower this year.
The governor said the
budget gap, combined
with uncertainties in funding from Washington, leaves him
with little choice than to raise some taxes.
With the proposed UFT contract settlement eliminating many
uncertainties, Mayor Bill de Blasio on May 8 presented a balanced executive
budget for next year that included significant new funding for arts education and after - school programs.
Local elected officials continue to take stock of what a Trump presidency might mean for New York City, and
with budget season around the corner, only one word can describe their feelings:
uncertainty.
With uncertainty about federal funding coming, a lot of attention in the new session will be on the
budget.
After a day of closed - door negotiations
with legislative leaders, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview
with Spectrum News NY1 Monday evening that
uncertainty about how a new Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current
budget rather than a new one.
Three approaches were used to evaluate the outstanding «carbon
budget» (the total amount of CO2 emissions compatible
with a given global average warming) for 1.5 °C: re-assessing the evidence provided by complex Earth System Models, new experiments
with an intermediate - complexity model, and evaluating the implications of current ranges of
uncertainty in climate system properties using a simple model.
Overestimating by a small percentage may be a good way to deal
with budget variations during the project that are difficult to control — including currency fluctuations, inflation, and
uncertainty.
After the grim
uncertainty of From Russia
with Love and the classic iconography of Goldfinger, Thunderball is more than content to let a suddenly - enormous
budget ($ 9M compared to Goldfinger's $ 3M) carry it far, far over-the-top
with ludicrous underwater battles and pieces of gadgetry that become full - blown set - pieces in and of themselves.
With the
uncertainty at the U.S. Department of Education and a constrained
budget, it's now up to states and district leaders to own the OER movement and begin strategizing, implementing, and sharing their OER process.
With the steadily decreasing per pupil rates and the extreme
uncertainty of the state
budget, we must take advantage of any relief we can including the small amount of flexibility offered by the waiver process,» said Franci Sassin, business manager at Capistrano Connections Academy Charter School.
With fiscal constraint continuing and macroeconomic uncertainty, this approach suggests there while there is a greater appetite for targeted interventions within current budgets, blanket increases to teacher pay funded with new money are unlik
With fiscal constraint continuing and macroeconomic
uncertainty, this approach suggests there while there is a greater appetite for targeted interventions within current
budgets, blanket increases to teacher pay funded
with new money are unlik
with new money are unlikely.
«
With budgets already stretched, and
uncertainty about future funding, ASCD is sensitive to the challenges school leaders face when making financial decisions for their staff and students,» said Deb Delisle, ASCD Executive Director and CEO.
As a result, there are some who are uncomfortable
with the
uncertainty, and the latest
budget developments are not alieviating fears.
In a press release State Superintendent Tom Torlakson said did not directly address the slight drop in state scores, although he did suggest that «schools across the state continued to deal
with the effects of years of
budget cuts and financial
uncertainties throughout the 2012 - 13 school year.»
Buying a new home is never a simple matter, what
with the lengthy property hunt, the
budget constraints that come into play and the
uncertainty that surrounds...
These
budgets give the lowest estimates of allowed emissions and are the simplest to convert into policy advice, but they suffer from the same problem of probabilistic interpretation as TEBs since they are dependent on simple climate models
with uncertainty ranges calibrated to the CMIP5 ensemble.
This ends up changing estimates of cumulative carbon emissions since the pre-industrial period, but given the large
uncertainties involved the authors caution against using these revisions to draw conclusions about remaining carbon
budgets associated
with staying within the 2C or 1.5 C warming targets.
A new study by Prof Jason Lowe and Dr Dan Bernie at the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre takes these CMIP5 models and tries to account for additional
uncertainties in the carbon
budget associated
with feedbacks, such as carbon released by thawing of permafrost or methane production from wetlands, as a result of climate change.
When
uncertainty increases, the mean total
budget also increases
with uncertainty (other points on the blue line).
The blue line plots the mean carbon
budget (across the 1000 samples) as a function of the
uncertainty surrounding climate sensitivity (for this demonstration, climate sensitivity is expressed in units of KW - 1 m2,
with a mean of.741 and variance as shown in the figure above.
In fact, in the annual Global Carbon
Budget 2016 published in November 2016, we still estimated that Chinese emissions would be down 0.5 % for the year, based on monthly data through September, albeit
with a wide
uncertainty range from 3.8 % down to 1.3 % up.
The SST of the periode mentioned as tuning parameter seems to be much more plausibely than the TOA - imbalance which is not directly observable at all also
with the sofisticatest recent technonolgies, see http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0406.1 «
Uncertainties in absolute calibration and the algorithms used to determine Earth's radiation
budget from satellite measurements are too large to enable Earth's energy imbalance to be quantified in an absolute sense.»
Energy
budget estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and transient climate response (TCR) are derived using the comprehensive 1750 — 2011 time series and the
uncertainty ranges for forcing components provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Working Group I Report, along
with its estimates of heat accumulation in the climate system.
energy
budget is much less dependent on the shortwave scattering component which makes up the bulk of
uncertainty with cloud feedback.
It leaves them
with uncertainty in setting their
budgets because the pursuit of leverage is based on maximizing hourly bills.
It eliminates all predictability as to where companies may be sued, and such
uncertainty also strains defendants»
budgets, burdens interstate commerce by exerting upward pressure on consumer prices, and erodes core principles of federalism as courts in certain states interfere
with the regulatory affairs of other states.
Or you're frustrated by the
budget, staffing and mission
uncertainties that come
with this rookie White House administration.
Toll executives on a conference call Tuesday
with investors and analysts said the drops were likely due to several factors: price increases,
uncertainty about the federal
budget, and interest rates that rose a full percentage point between May and September.
Uncertainty is still a giant weight on our economic recovery — companies still hesitate to invest because of a few giant unresolved questions, starting
with the federal
budget.