"As a society we recognise that non-smokers need to be protected from carcinogens when at work but we are not doing enough to protect the most vulnerable non-smokers of all - children, " he said.

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Passed in part to protect collective-bargaining rights, the law grants employees a right to engage in "protected concerted activity, " such as discussing pay or other conditions.

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His organisation is campaigning for a large Marine Protected Area to be established here to protect the sharks from boat damage and fin-poaching.

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While originally designed to protect regional exchanges from the NYSE, in practice it has protected the NYSE, with its floor-based open-outcry trading system, from new electronic exchanges.

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It was intended to grow and be handed down from one generation to the next, largely protected from the taxman through the shrewdness of family strategists--and generous grandfather clauses that protect assets accumulating in offshore accounts set up years ago.

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In seeking to balance the supposed necessity of finality against the obvious need to protect the innocent from all-too-frequent errors, the case probes the viability and scope of the constitutionally-protected writ of habeas corpus, the procedural device for reviewing otherwise final judgments based on newly-discovered evidence.

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