(b) Inclusion of security and safety measures such as the glazing of the facade

To prevent this inefficient trade off, governments should tie central bankers hands by insulating them from political influence.

Over the longer term, a strong currency promotes efficiency in export industries, further insulating competitiveness from exchange rate effects.

So far, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been largely successful in insulating the German economy from the turmoil elsewhere in Europe.

Latin America will finish 2007 with a current account surplus and growing foreign currency reserves, insulating them from financial crisis.

And the great thing about this stuff is you can make it in units of roughly seven times the size of glass, and it was only one percent of the weight of double glazing.

The security risk and blast assessment study found that the security measures incorporated in the final design, including the repositioning of the building, glazing specifications for the facade and ventilation features, were appropriate and sufficient.

And governments would almost certainly have to back some lending banks, too, so the claimed benefits in terms of insulating the public purse would not be realized.

The more thinly capitalized banks are, the more severe these distortions and the larger the expected costs rising from insulating executives from potential losses to non shareholder stakeholders.

I believe that the only way that it is possible for us to construct genuinely sustainable homes and cities is by connecting them to nature, not insulating them from it.

Throughout the region, elections have been used to create a façade of democracy aimed at impressing citizens and the outside world while insulating the regimes from pressure for genuine reform.

Unless a mechanism is introduced that facilitates the rapid disbursement of EU funds, thus insulating the budget from destructive politicization, these funds cannot be used to stimulate growth in times of crisis.

By rewarding executives for risky behavior, and by insulating them from some of the adverse consequences of that behavior, pay arrangements for financial sector bosses produced perverse incentives, encouraging them to gamble.

Adding solar collectors to a conventional outdoor pool, in a cold climate, can typically extend the pool's comfortable usage by some months or more if an insulating pool cover is also used.

(ii) Fireless cookers. These are baskets made out of reeds whose inner sides are well lined with warm and insulating materials that prevent the loss of heat from a boiling pan inside them.

Insulating executives from losses to stakeholders other than shareholders can be expected to encourage them to make investments and take on obligations that increase the likelihood and severity of losses that exceed the shareholders capital.

And here, the first thing you can see is that this building, the roof is a very warm kind of overcoat blanket, a kind of insulating garden, which is also about the celebration of public space.

Here's another one completely different one Why is it that we don't do the blindingly obvious things we should do to combat climate change, very, very simple things like buying energy efficient appliances, putting in efficient lights, turning the lights off occasionally, insulating our homes?

And by using mycelium as a glue, you can mold things just like you do in the plastic industry, and you can create materials with many different properties, materials that are insulating, fire resistant, moisture resistant, vapor resistant materials that can absorb impacts, that can absorb acoustical impacts.

It is fully understandable and largely supported by empirical evidence that these CEOs would want good results to occur on their watch, rather than after their successor takes over. Insulating CEOs and boards further from financial markets may perversely free them to focus even more narrowly on short term results.