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...business interests. Both the AL and BNP have been pressed to become more transparent and to allow greater levels of internal dissent so the party machinery revolves less around the cult-like stature of their leaders. The military, for its part, has deployed some 50,000 troops to safeguard voting stations and intends to suspend civilian mobile phone signals on election day, which it claims will make mob takeovers of polling booths and vote-rigging - both hallmarks of elections in the past - more difficult. According to a poll by the Daily Star, a leading Dhaka English language newspaper...
Perhaps most importantly, both candidates have put forward plans to safeguard the expected billions of dollars in oil revenues which should start to flow into the country's coffers after 2010. In October, Akufo-Addo said he planned to set up an "oil fund" to invest revenues in developing the country's education, health-care and basic infrastructure. Mills went further, calling for the formation of an "independent authority which will account for the oil resource." "We don't want it to be a curse," he said. That curse, or resource curse, as economists call it, describes a tendency...
...Having a union is very important to safeguard the interest of people in these positions,” Paulson said...
...Even Ford, which said it would not need federal cash in 2009, said it needed a $9 billion line of credit on which it could draw if necessary. "For Ford, government loans would serve as a critical backstop or safeguard against worsening conditions, as we drive transformational change in our company," said Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
What makes the latest damage to the reefs so heartbreaking is that the condition of south Florida's reef ecosystem seemed to be improving this year, if ever so slightly. The state seemed to be doing its share to safeguard the natural treasure. Lawmakers, for example, agreed to a long-term timeline to prohibit water utilities from dumping partially-treated sewage into the ocean. Federal and state agencies also finally moved a commercial ship anchorage that had caused years of sustained reef damage off Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale...