Word: protectiveness
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...close the bank to new business, to stop all future lending, and to confine itself to managing the existing loan book and selling it off piecemeal to private-sector buyers as market conditions improve. After all, by one estimate, there is now some $200 billion of taxpayers' exposure to protect. Nor, of course, is the survival of Northern Rock of any strategic or other importance to the U.K. economy. Indeed, it has become a source of weakness...
...very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that as a sovereign state and the home of this great civilization, Egypt has a right to protect its legal and moral rights in regard to its antiquities...
...there any reasonable way to permit the movement of antiquities across national borders and still protect archaeological digs? Cuno wants to revive the practice of partage, the system that prevailed in expeditions through the first part of the 20th century. Under partage, the source country kept much of what was found, but archaeologists took home a share for their affiliated museums and universities. Today the source nation keeps almost everything, despite the fact that a foreign museum or university is usually paying for the dig. "If archaeologists were to say, 'We're going to withdraw our expertise until...
Site destruction--and the consequent loss of knowledge--is a cultural disaster for everyone. But is prohibiting almost any lawful export the best way to protect sites? Despite the spread of cultural-property laws, looting is on the rise. "The laws have failed," says James Cuno, director of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the forthcoming book Who Owns Antiquity? "What they are doing is driving this material underground into black markets...
...think, if I could use a football analogy, if you don’t protect Tom Brady and that front line, it can make things interesting, as we saw in the Super Bowl,” Amaker explained. “If [Bernardini] gets time, there aren’t many teams or people that will be able to hang with...