Seeds, genes and technology once shared are now often patented by companies and universities, endangering the ability of the centers to distribute seeds free to poor farmers.
"This so-called personhood bill would have endangered the ability of Virginians to get the medical help they need to build their families," Mr. Tipton said.
With Iran threatening to cut off about a fifth of the world's oil supply by closing the Strait of Hormuz and unrest in Iraq endangering the ability to increase production there, financial analysts say prices for two important oil benchmarks will average from $100 a barrel to $120 a barrel in 2012.
In recent years, however, a big change is endangering the ability these populations have developed to adapt and survive in their own environment.
It says the provision would endanger the group's ability to provide services in the state.
If allowed to stand, the $145 billion award would endanger the industry's ability to continue paying the state, providing money that helps subsidize legislators' favorite projects.
They said that allocating hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the tax cut in perpetuity would endanger the government's ability to pay Social Security benefits when the vast boomer generation retires.
Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, said the tax cut would endanger the nation's ability in coming decades to meet the increasing costs of Social Security and Medicare; lessen the chance that the government could pay its debt; and restrict Washington's ability to improve roads, education and health care and aid farmers.
The recapitalization plan seems to be based on the costs of a default by Greece, but investors have already shifted their focus to Italy and the risk that Rome's dysfunctional politics could endanger the country's ability to service its debt.
Even so, it is still a hard road ahead for Cochran, even if his campaign hits maximum effectiveness in driving the message that a Cochran loss would endanger the state's ability to secure federal money when it needs it.
The association said higher capital requirements, set to be proposed on Tuesday by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, might endanger the economic recovery by limiting the ability to lend.
