Geography thus insulates them, to some extent, from the consequences of high corporate taxes.
Mutual companies often have lower leverage and less market-dependent products, which further insulates them from market uncertainty.
Controlling nearly all of the shares in Bose insulates him, he says, from such pesky financial concerns.
That obligation insulates them professionally and personally from the worst of the criticism from the other side.
This insulates them from falling prices, but denies them profits if prices rise.
The concentration of high-end stores insulates the company from any economic downswings since their affluent shoppers are less prone to scrimping.
Among other provisions the law insulates electronic middlemen from libel suits.
Utterly quiet even by the standards of a library inside a stone structure, the room insulates visitors from any distractions focusing the senses completely on the works.
But Mr Orszag believes this approach will help in two ways: it insulates tough decisions from politics, and it encourages ongoing reform rather than one-shot heroics.
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Offers near-total job security and insulates federal employees from recessions.
Apple somewhat insulates itself from that type of commoditization.
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And at times it insulates--and enriches--higher-ups like TAP's Durand.
The advantage of the U.S. on the regulatory front, though, is its Federal organization, which leads to diverse incentive programs across states and insulates the industry from dependence on a single form of regulation.
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Bank of America was in a position to buy Merrill Lynch in part because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees deposits, insulates a large share of the bank's funding from crises of confidence.
Critics often acknowledge that view, but they also warn the setup insulates management in a way that could hurt shareholders at key moments like takeovers, when executives' interests and investors' interests may not be perfectly aligned.
They needn't ever speak of it, simply because their whiteness and gender insulates them from the presumption of partiality and bias that is regularly attached to women judges and judges of color when it comes to matters of race and gender.
And thereby, when you have problems in a region of the world that produces oil, you are -- the effect on your own production -- your own dependence on that -- the reduction in your dependence on that insulates you from some of that shock.
Moroney is still buying Golden West Financial (nyse: GDW - news - people ) as well, because of the large volume of its adjustable-rate mortgage business, which partially insulates it from rising rates since interest on ARMs is by definition not fixed.
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