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A number of safeguards seem to have been provided by a tailor John Anderson for the family of Regent Arran in Scotland in the 1540s and 1550s. Described in the Scots language as wardegardes, a word sometimes interpreted as a carrying bag for clothes, [26] these may have been practical riding garments of hard-wearing buckram, fustian, and gray wool.
Safeguard Scientifics, a venture capital firm; Safeguard (soap), a brand of bar soap sold in the United States; Safeguard (Transformers), a Mini-Con in the Transformers: Cybertron toy line; IAEA safeguards, a system of inspection and verification of the peaceful uses of nuclear materials
Security controls or security measures are safeguards or countermeasures to avoid, detect, counteract, or minimize security risks to physical property, information, computer systems, or other assets. [1] In the field of information security, such controls protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
Child well-being is better in rich countries with low economic inequality.. Safeguarding is a term used in the United Kingdom, Ireland [1] and Australia [2] to denote measures to protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals, which allow people—especially children, young people and vulnerable adults—to live free from abuse, harm and neglect.
Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.” As the opioid pain meds became scarce, a cheaper opioid began to take over the market — heroin. Frieden said three quarters of heroin users started with pills.
With the help of a billion-dollar cash infusion and the market-soothing arrival of former government officials, New York Community Bank has come back from the brink.
“Our estimates imply a pass-through of the safeguard tariffs to consumer prices of above 100 percent with estimates ranging between 108 percent and 225 percent,” the study concluded.
In international trade law, a safeguard is a restraint to protect home or national industries from foreign competition.In the World Trade Organization (WTO), a member may take a safeguard action, such as restricting imports of a product temporarily to protect a domestic industry from an increase in imports causing or threatening to cause injury to domestic production.