"The final overdraft rules represent an important step forward in consumer protection, " Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in a statement.
"The agreement is a great step forward for the protection of the Arctic from an oil spill because it sets up a system for the states to co-operate in practice, " he said.
We are also thrilled that Congress held the line and maintained protections for battered immigrants and took the important step of also reauthorizing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in this same legislation.
In July and August, the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center took the rare step of warning people around the world about the impending threat of the "Code Red" worm -- named after the soft drink favored by the security team that first analyzed it.
Herefordshire Council has been told to improve child protection services or face having the government step in to take them over.
That's led European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding to call on the nations of the European Union to step up their enforcement efforts and to cooperate more on consumer protection issues.
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If Kennedy is averse to reaching the equal-protection question in Windsor, that suggests it is a step he would prefer not to take.
There is only so much protection to be had when governments are increasingly willing to step in, and legal systems to step back.
Protection for key nature sites in UK seas has come a step closer with the unveiling of proposals to create over 100 Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs).
The Swiss Socialist party "deplored" the result, saying that better protection against passive smoking would have "incontestably been a major step in the improvement of (workers') conditions".
"Today has seen our ambition to put in place special protection areas for marine life off the coast of England take a significant step forward, " said Environment Minister Richard Benyon.
For American, it was one more step in the right direction after its parent company, AMR Corporation, filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011.
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Meanwhile, Britain's health secretary announced Friday that his country's Health Protection Agency had sequenced the full genetic code of the H1N1 virus, the first step in producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine.
"The M5 Pro is the next step in the evolution of the SSD combining high speed, drive reliability, and data-level protection, " said Minnie Lin, Marketing Manager, Plextor.
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