Word: protectiveness
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...scrap milk quotas and give farmers incentives to look after the countryside rather than producing food. They will further break the link between direct payments and production, allowing farmers to better follow market signals. A progressive reduction in farm subsidies will be accompanied by shifting the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms. And the plans call for an end to the so-called set-aside rules that requiring some land to be kept out of production...
...shows on demand. Watch what you want, instantly, for as long as you want. You can even start a movie on your home TV, and finish watching it on your PC laptop at a hotel days later. Apple, which uses its own digital-rights management to copy protect films and TV shows, doesn't support the Netflix on-demand service...
...grown up since then, embraced complexity: it doesn't matter that nearly two-thirds of Americans say the Iraq war wasn't worth fighting; three-quarters say the government is not doing enough to help returning vets. They protect us when we hand them a rifle and say, "Go fight the enemy." We betray them when we hand them a pencil and say, "Now go fight the bureaucracy...
...according to some critics. Universities should not have to serve as copyright policemen, especially since the laws are entirely against the interests of its students and only serve the music industry. Essentially taxing educational instiutions to preserve the record companies’ business model is an abhorrent way to protect entrenched interests. Such tactics would not even come close to solving the problem, since college students are responsible only a small part of music downloads. Clearly this new wave of legislation marks a cynical attempt by the RIAA and the states to focus on college students rather than other offenders...
...emitting carbon dioxide at rates that placed the world in its current binding predicament starting during the Industrial Revolution. As China and India now undergo periods of rapid growth and approach huge upswings in development, it is unrealistic to expect them to forego economic gain in order to protect the environment. Certainly, the issue of fairness needs to be considered in coming up with a plausible solution...