Investors appeared to take on a more protective mindset ahead of those meeting.
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Parents tend to be more protective of their daughters than their sons because the familial costs of pregnancy are higher.
France is even more protective of its national champions than Italy, but Generali is Italy's only financial company of real scale.
The old, the one group that has been protected from the havoc, are only likely to become more protective of Social Security.
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Here politics matters much more, both because voters are more protective of their perks and because there are genuine ideological choices to be made.
However, stiff competition in the mobile device market has lead to a much more protective stance by many companies over their patents in order to generate revenues.
If this pattern continues and I see more of this action in other names, I will become even more protective of capital and more than likely look to trade exclusively on the short side.
This tendency is now so strong that many people in the creative industries see open innovation as a primary threat to their professions and are looking for a new, more protective culture around open innovation.
Greek sports programs have been hobbled by budget slashing, but other European countries in the throes of austerity, such as Ireland and Portugal, have been more protective of elite sports budgets ahead of the Games this month.
Lest you think this means that users suddenly trusted the site more, Carnegie Mellon says that Facebookers became more and more protective of their personal details as the social network grew in membership -- and that the uptick in shared information is a result of increasingly granular privacy settings.
In a way, it could even be more privacy protective in that the cards will capture only the amount spent, not what it was spent on (as a receipt would).
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Thinner volunteers were found to be more likely to carry the protective form of the gene, while the other version was more common in obese people.
Businesses will postpone hiring and go into a protective crouch even more than today.
Big, established news organisations can be too cautious and too protective of their more powerful sources.
Cliff Dixon, the deputy chief constable of Bedfordshire, wants to see more British police officers wearing protective clothing.
The Labour MSP said it was for that reason he intended to launch the Workers (Aggravated Offences) (Scotland) Bill, which would extend protective legislation to more workers facing the threat of violence or intimidation.
Those who took two or more aspirin daily also received a protective effect from Parkinson's.
Given the recent evolution of the game, those protective instincts may be more valuable than ever.
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Proponents of rigid airships also claim that their babies are more resilient, thanks to the protective outer skin which shields the gas compartments.
CVN, explains that way back in 1810, protective salt marshes occupied more than 150 square km of the lagoon, but by 1998 these had declined to only 33.5 square km.
If these tests are successful, liquid armour could furnish soldiers with protective clothing that is more comfortable and less cumbersome than existing body armour, and provides them with greater protection.
"It was less about being protective, pretentious jerks and more about just getting people to slow down and really feel these songs, " she said.
We've also laid approximately 217, 000 feet of protective boom, and there are more on the way.
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Studies have shown that people are much more likely to buy insurance or invest in protective measures if an event such as a hurricane that has a 1 in100 chance of occurring next year is presented as having a greater than 1 in 5 chance of happening at least once in the next 25 years.
As for Tegra 4, we wish we could tell you more but alas, NVIDIA is still being awfully protective over its technology demos.
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Mr Stevens, who also runs Slade and Gorton, a seafood marketing company, insisted that rather than taking protective measures, the fishermen should do more to attract customers.
He said the protective fence did its job in preventing potentially more injuries and possibly deaths.
When I was feeling protective of our privacy, I would write more lifestyle-focused pieces: the importance to a marriage of having close friends, for instance, or how different tastes in food can affect family dinner.
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The study highlights charismatic mega-fauna such as whales, tigers and polar bears as animals more likely to be the focus of successful conservation programs, protective legislation and public funding drives.
By the time we discovered the third breach, a week after the Deepwater Horizon platform sank, we had already stationed more than 70 vessels and hundreds of thousands of feet of protective boom on site.
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