Congress not only added considerably to the cost, but stripped away the protection from future class action lawsuits the tobacco companies thought they were getting.
That said, reform need not mean stripping away all employment protection.
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Then, with QE2 and the November elections over, investors felt their Teflon protection melting away as bond yields began their relentless march upward.
Copyright grants extraordinary powers to an owner, including the right to prevent protected works from being sold or even given away, far more protection than trademark law.
The quest for yield has been so pronounced, and even recently cited by a Fed Governor, the protection has been fading away.
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Worse, if the protection software is cracked straight away, it could deal a fatal blow to what is already an ailing standard.
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, we are throwing away 68 pounds of textiles per person per year and donating such a staggering volume of clothes that a majority of our donations to charity have to be sold to textile recyclers who then sell more than half of our used clothes overseas, largely to Africa.
But in 1941, Hess submitted the letter of protection, only to have it swiped away.
Companies must inform the data protection authorities and the people affected right away, preferably within 24 hours.
Recent decades have also seen a shift in the charity's work, moving away from inspectors acting alone towards advisory services and child protection teams.
Making matters worse: By 2011, a quarter of current drug sales in the U.S. will be eaten away by less expensive generic pills as medicines lose patent protection.
In addition, by not buying inflation protection, steadily increasing costs of care will eat away at what is already a modest benefit.
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The drug giant is facing thousands of personal injury lawsuits related to its withdrawn pain pill Vioxx, and its cholesterol-lowering drug Zocor lost patent protection this summer, allowing cheap generics to eat away at its sales.
And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by countless federal regulations.
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The market was pricing protection as if the nearest fire station was 50 miles away, when in reality the people who could put out the fire were standing right there.
Mr Beggs said that, on any realistic view, the policing provided in the extended area around the ground was exclusively for the benefit or protection of the club and its customers, both home and away supporters.
Before the vote Thursday, bank interests had already successfully knocked back proposals that would have taken away their power to assert federal preemption over tougher state lending and consumer protection laws, something they spent the better part of the 1990s litigating.
They accept the horribly misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and they resign themselves to chipping away at its edges.
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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) advised parents to keep children aged under 10 away from Sutton Park in September.
The Council for the Protection of Rural England, a countryside charity indifferent to hunting, is staying away.
Moral of the story: Buy bonds with change of control protection but understand if you paid a premium, the market may take it away.
He lay in bed going over a paper he had to deliver at a Health Protection conference the next day while Suzie sorted piles of clean laundry and put them away.
C. taxi drivers and Uber services, or the decade-old spat between cable operators and telco-based video providers, understands that when regulators can no longer provider monopoly protection to an incumbent, their basis for imposing monopoly-related fees or obligations washes away.
You'll find that most of the money getting squirreled away in these accounts is taxable assets and not from retirement plans, which obviously enjoy built-in tax protection.
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