An interesting paper here about import protection in the current economic travails.

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The Gorham mill hung on until the fall of 2010, after Canadian owner Fraser Paper Inc. sought bankruptcy protection.

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And if, as the paper implies, anything other than weak protection reduces innovation then we had really rather better have a system with only weak protection and thus weak property rights.

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In a duffel bag, they found ear and eye protection, binoculars, numerous other paper targets and Lanza's NRA certificate.

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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.

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The purpose of the conference is to bring together a host of participants from the academia, NGOs, policy making bodies and the bureaucracy, in order to share their research experiences on the existing programs, best practices, issues, concerns and policies in different parts of the globe, particularly the developing countries, and to submit a policy paper to Government of India to improve social protection policies in India.

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The Beijing News notes that progress on environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the white paper.

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Paper waste accounts for 40% of landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection agency.

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E-filing has some benefits for individual taxpayers, such as faster refunds and protection from IRS data entry clerks, who make mistakes entering the info from 5% of all paper returns.

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