Word: protection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...using Pfizer's logo on its website and fined the offender $25,000. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella, for one, cites China's "enlightened" patent laws as the reason the Swiss drugmaker will continue to invest in China vs. India, where a court recently rejected the company's attempt to protect a patent on a leukemia drug. "China has made tremendous progress and taken the steps to show they have the right priorities," he says. Or, rather, it's done just what the doctor ordered...
...sort of a strange combination to be in tabletops and newsprint. What is the common denominator? That's the question. There is enormous loyalty to regional brands in the newspaper business; there is enormous loyalty to brands in the tabletop business. Brands protect you from becoming a commodity. So avoid commoditization at all costs. And that is the common thread to all of those...
...book Earth in the Balance. My interest in environmentalism was further aroused by the 2004 award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai, who was also named among your Heroes. Thank you for taking out time to celebrate these and other people who are working so hard to protect our planetary home. Timi Songi, Yenagoa, Nigeria...
...suffered due to pollution-induced acid rain. House hopes to increase the waters’ alkaline levels in order to accelerate this natural process that represents half of the Earth’s ability to remove carbon. Increasing the ocean’s alkaline levels will also protect animals whose bodies require calcium, like shellfish, he said. House, who said he came up with the idea while jogging along the Charles River, plans to accelerate the electrochemical weathering process by removing hydrochloric acid from the oceans. “Various people have thought about finding soluble minerals...
...voice that whispers rumors of the hell that exists inside. The Gabriel to Bardem’s Mephistopheles is Tommy Lee Jones ’69, the aging sheriff of Brolin’s hometown. Jones follows the trail of bodies just a step behind Bardem, hoping to protect Brolin from the unstoppable evil. Jones provides a psychological grounding point, a man who has seen more years of bloodshed than any should, and is powerless to do anything but crack hollow jokes in the face of the tide that threatens to swallow him. Like any McCarthy novel, in the battle...