Pathetically, despite the fact that this campaign has been building for more than a decade, to date Netanyahu's only strategy for dealing with it is to beg Obama for short-term protection.
Or will you teach them about how we owe much of the wealth we have today to past generations willingness to engage in trade rather than trying to maximize short term job protection?
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According to Mr Eyerman, he is acting in a way similar to how an independent judge would act in a Chapter 11 proceeding, giving Alstom short-term protection from creditors so that its managers can try to show that the firm is worth financing in the capital markets.
Investment banks must have a dizzying influence over the regulator to win special protection from short-selling, particularly as they act as prime brokers for almost all short-sellers.
The latter is exceedingly unlikely to result in the widespread deployment of even its top priority (namely, effective protection against short-range missile attacks) let alone its secondary priority (a modest defense of the continental United States against limited attacks).
On that view, it is a good time for the world's big consuming nations (including developing countries such as China) to build up buffer stocks, which provide the only real protection against short-term supply disruptions caused by embargoes, wars and the like.
As Bear Stearns faced insolvency, speculators piled on short bets by purchasing CDS protection against Bear Stearns failing.
Highly condensed lithium polymer battery delivers an incredible amount of juice in a small form factor and features built in overcharge, short circuit, and temperature protection.
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One way to ensure this form of protection is to allow short-sellers to do their work.
The snag is that in the short run reforms that reduce job protection are more likely to depress consumer spending.
Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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And it is the best protection against corruption, cronyism and political short-termism.
Moreover, the protection of jobs and pay would be short-term, because it would gradually lead to companies losing competitiveness as rivals in India and China innovated (see article).
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Investors seeking longer-term protection against inflation should also stick with short-term TIPS. Even though long-term TIPS might offer higher real rates of return, they are much more volatile, Mr. Friedrich says.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said troops might provide short-term relief but he did not believe border protection was an appropriate role for the National Guard.
Alternatively, strategists could be hedging short positions in the stock, reducing the cost of protection by establishing call spreads rather than simply buying calls outright.
In July the Commons defence select committee said a lack of helicopters was undermining UK forces' operations and troop protection in Afghanistan, although their report stopped short of saying soldiers were dying due to a lack of helicopters.
In short, the deal provides significant upside as well as downside protection.
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Once again, short-sellers are ultimately buyers, meaning they are downside protection personified.
In its ruling, the federal court has disagreed with that analysis, saying that being forced to participate in military misconduct, even if it stops short of a war crime, may support a claim to protection in Canada.
At the same time, European nations began to explore how to strengthen rebel fighters short of arming them after a European Council decision allowing aid for civilian protection.
For two, if we ignore how very informative short interest is when it comes to share prices, investors ultimately want downside protection.
As the old rules have been loosened, firms have hired more workers, often on short-term contracts or as part-timers, with less strict job protection and lower social-security contributions.
In Jingbian the government appears to have fallen far short of its own insistence that it is committed to the rule of law and the protection of private property rights.
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And deeper structural reforms will not be popular with the voters who lose benefits or job protection particularly since such reforms may well make unemployment worse in the short term, as firms shed the workers they previously found it difficult to fire.
Additionally, for growth-oriented investors, fixed-income securities can provide investors with downside protection and diversification within a growth portfolio especially in a highly volatile market where additional, measured, short-term flights to quality are likely.
In short, it seeks to restore a cohesive, coordinated military force under unified control and under Russia's nuclear protection -- a defense arrangement resembling that of the Soviet Union.
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