To punish private sector defined contribution plans and reward public sector defined benefit plans is egregiously self-serving.
We defined public schools tightly as those listed in 1971 as such, leaving out schools that have gone independent since.
House defined our public image of a doctor in the naughts, in the same way M.
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In her lecture, Mantel described how Catherine's public image was first defined by her clothes, and then her pregnancy.
Charter schools are officially defined as public schools, not as separate entities.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton has performed many roles for the American people in the three decades that have defined her public life: first lady, scorned woman, senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state all among them.
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Responding to claims that a benefits cap would lead to families being made homeless, Mr. Duncan Smith insisted that the definition of homelessness that is "bandied around" is "very misleading for the public" because it is defined in the sense that children have to share rooms and not that people will not have a home to go to.
But defined-contribution plans also have a significant foothold in the public sector: most public universities, where faculty have been covered by defined-contribution plans for decades.
Mr Rohatgi says the main issue is that public purpose needs to be well defined.
Public-sector unions are enjoying defined benefit plans, whereas the rest of lucky America who has a retirement plan has a defined contribution plan.
But the act's remit extends only to the public telephone network, which was defined in a recent House of Lords judgment as ending at the wall socket.
Typically, public employee unions cling tightly to defined-benefit pensions: only a handful of states, including Michigan and Alaska, have had much success moving non-university employees to defined-contribution plans.
The 1980s defined Sharpton's public persona, as he transformed from preacher to civil rights advocate to activist, making a name for himself as a spokesman for sometimes dubious causes.
The terms of what makes up a "public authority" have not been defined in the Act, but will include government departments, local authorities, police, prison, immigration officers, public prosecutors and courts.
The team, which looked at several thousand venture-capital-backed companies from 1986 to 2003, said that stat held up whether you defined success as going public, filing to go public, as being acquired or going through a merger.
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They do not understand why they should now pay to maintain the more generous defined-benefit pensions of public-sector employees.
Employee membership of any company pension scheme - final-salary, defined contribution or stakeholder, public and private sector - dropped to 48% last year.
That is the kind of story that has defined the most famous initial public offerings of Silicon Valley, but it never materialized for Facebook, perhaps the most well-known tech IPO of all.
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The defined-benefits revolution that has swept through the private sector has hardly touched the public one: 90% of American state- and local-government workers have defined-benefit plans, compared with 20% of private-sector workers.
These defined contribution retirement plans permit largely public sector workers to defer a portion of their compensation.
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No matter how its defined, TimeCrafters provides the general public with an in depth look at watchmaking precision and craftsmanship.
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Public-sector pensions for new employees must become defined-contribution plans, as in the private sector.
The alternative was to see the private sector's assault on defined-benefit pensions escalate into the public sector, the last safe bastion of such benefits.
"It is not reasonable that private sector employees who will never enjoy defined benefit pensions should continue to subsidise public sector workers insulated from economic reality, " its director general Simon Walker said.
The public doesn't view history in neatly divided chunks, defined by which party was in government.
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Freedom of Information (FOI) can be defined as the right to access information held by public bodies.
But ever since disgruntled IBM employees brought the issue to public attention, the movement by major corporations to convert traditional defined-benefit plans to so-called cash-balance pension plans has been a lightning rod for workers'--and particularly baby boomers'--growing anxiety over their retirement incomes.
Activists investors like Loeb are still criticized in the U.S. A few weeks ago, for example, Loeb was knocked for allegedly supporting an effort to deny teachers and other public-sector workers guaranteed benefits while raising money from such defined benefit plans for his hedge funds.
Small business has historically been a powerful engine of job creation and yet it is shying away from one of the biggest growth opportunities of our time: the Clean Economy, broadly defined here to include not only renewable energy, public mass transit, and waste treatment but all goods and services with environmental benefits.
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President George W. Bush defined his era in terms of war, and the public largely saw it the same way.
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