Word: protectiveness
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...insurer; second largest in property and casualty. Through its aircraft-leasing subsidiary, AIG owns more than 950 airline jets. Just for good measure, AIG is a huge provider of insurance to U.S. municipalities, pension funds and other public and private bodies through guaranteed investment contracts and other products that protect participants in 401(k) plans. "We have no choice but to stabilize [it] or else risk enormous impact, not just in the financial system but on the whole U.S. economy," said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...because Russia wants to make friends with the U.S.," says Dmitri Trenin the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "You have to tell them they have been cut because NATO poses a serious threat, and we need to improve our armed forces to be able to protect ourselves...
...China's new antitrust law contains provisions allowing the government to protect national brands. And it's true that Beijing is hardly the first government to kill a foreign acquisition for political reasons, even in defense of less-than-strategic industries. The French rescued yogurt company Danone from the clutches of PepsiCo a few years ago. But Beijing didn't justify its decision on "national economic development" grounds, the part of the law that allows protection of popular brands. It cited the need to protect consumers, an unconvincing reason to some legal experts...
...probably a combination of all of those factors that prevents adequate treatment of hypertension in the black community, and the end result is that African Americans are more likely to develop further risk factors for heart disease, none of which are being treated aggressively enough to protect this population from early illness. "Our ability to intervene early and appropriately is limited," says Yancy. "That is something that we need to change because I think it's a crisis." Studies like this one that document the problem could be an important first step in sounding the alarm...
...appointment of a special envoy to the region to stop the bloodshed. “The Obama Administration has not yet appointed a special envoy to Sudan,” she said, adding that American citizens must call their representatives and demand action. “We must protect these citizens whose government cannot or will not protect them,” she said. According to Farrow, China is a major force in enabling the killing, as the Chinese government has helped fund the country’s arms purchases. China has also exercised its veto power...