These statistical disparities inspired the EEOC to rewrite the corporate hiring handbook to level the playing field between "protected groups" and the rest of the workforce.
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Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.
At one of this year's football games, dozens of Houstonians protested in front of the field as Miss Ward (protected by temporary federal court injunctions) said her prayer, inciting the home crowd to cheer her even more enthusiastically.
Which is all very well, but how banks are supervised and how depositors' money is protected are central to creating and maintaining a level playing field in financial services.
And so the field is open to vocal opponents, who include protected farmers, doctors and small businessmen fearing an onslaught of competition.
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The tradition has always been that sports is different, a kind of protected zone where athletes compete and no amount of spin can alter their performance on the field.
The opposing sides, of five players each, take turns serving the four kilogram rubber ball and thereafter trying to move the ball up the field, hitting it only with the hip or upper thigh, which are protected by special garments.
They include small field trials carried out in Ethiopia over two years, which showed that TB vaccination protected 56% of cattle from infection.
The high energies at which they're created and the speed at which they grow has protected their secrets for some time, but researchers at Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory finally think they've got it figured out.
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The provision of of such services has long been a recognized field of public effort, and the right to share in them is an important part of the protected sphere of the individual.
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