Rooney looked settled in his new surroundings, perhaps safe in the knowledge that once the initial ordeal was over, Ferguson would place him under strict protection and interviews would be off limits.
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This means that Ms Merkel will struggle to implement the main planks of her proposed reform programme: a flat-fee health-care premium to lower non-wage labour costs, further labour-market reforms, such as loosening Germany's strict protection against dismissal, and radical tax reform.
As the old rules have been loosened, firms have hired more workers, often on short-term contracts or as part-timers, with less strict job protection and lower social-security contributions.
Lower start-up costs and less strict worker protection make it easier for innovative entrepreneurs in America to experiment on a small scale (hence the smaller size of new firms), to test the markets and to expand.
For example, strict employment-protection laws make it hard for workers who lose their jobs to find new ones.
Emphasizing individual responsibility over state intervention, the Free Democrats want to ease the country's strict job-protection laws, reduce subsides and, most importantly, cut marginal tax rates.
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The report urges the government to ensure rigorous implementation of child protection laws and strict monitoring of child care facilities.
They therefore want the Court to designate homosexuals as a legally protected group like minorities or women and apply to Proposition 8 the highest levels of constitutional protection, called strict or heightened scrutiny.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has enacted some very strict emission requirements for locomotives, which will become effective in 2015.
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