Companies, under increasing pressure to protect their profits, will focus more attention on white-collar productivity.
But as these economies face their most severe recession in more than three decades, governments are coming under pressure to protect the jobless.
The Philippine government is also coming under pressure to do more to protect the Filipino clan.
It is designed to force Wall Street to produce honest stock research and to protect analysts from pressure within the firm to issue upbeat forecasts in order to attract investment banking fees.
As distributors and retailers consolidate and enhance their buying power, Cooper needs a broad product line in a few carefully selected areas to protect itself against pricing pressure.
The lawmaker said he plans to pressure the government to enact laws to protect albinos and other minorities.
The acrylic plate to protect the LCD from water pressure and shocks is 1.5 times thicker than conventional point-and-shoot cameras.
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Eric Pickles, the communities secretary, has signalled a broad opposition to development on protected land, as have many Conservative MPs and pressure groups such as the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Public interest, awareness and pressure forced the government to move swiftly to protect a heritage site once the evidence was widely known.
This meant that countries holding USDs as reserve currency were under increasing pressure to convert their USDs into gold to protect their own positions.
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Labor unions lobbied Clinton to issue the new rules before leaving office, asserting they would put pressure on companies that do business with the federal government to protect worker rights.
Pressure on the government to stay away from unpopular decisions and protect regional interests of allies is likely to increase in the coming months as the country readies for several state elections this year and the federal election by May 2014.
"There needs to be a radical rethink in society to revalue childhood and protect it as a precious time - not time to put pressure on children to grow up far too fast, " said Ms Freegard.
As a result, pressure on the government and the courts will increase in the years ahead to protect the IPR of not just the foreign companies, but the local companies as well.
Mr Simitis has also resisted American pressure to make it easier to prosecute suspected terrorists by enacting laws to help protect witnesses, to improve security for judges and to allow hearings in secret.
When growth and inflation begin to put pressure on yields and the dollar, emerging markets central banks are likely to protect themselves by hedging duration, but they can only limit their currency losses if they actually get rid of their dollars.
Miners continued their pressure, leading to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, marshalling public force to protect their health in the private workplace.
The death of Mr Calipari - who threw himself over Ms Sgrena to protect her from the gunfire - caused public outrage in Italy and intensified pressure on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to pull Italian troops out of Iraq.
Mr Straw restated his aim of creating 14, 000 more prison places by 2014, saying the government would be "failing in its fundamental duty to protect the public" if it did not increase capacity to meet the anticipated pressure on the system.
Baumgartner's team built him a special pressurised capsule to protect him on the way up, and for his descent he wore a next generation, full pressure suit made by the same company that prepares the flight suits of astronauts.
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