To make sure the extra spending was not soaked up by imports, and to safeguard key industries, import duties would, if necessary, be imposed.
Trivial as it sounded, the issue provoked furious protests and even street demonstrations by workers in various industries, including duty-free retailers, airlines and liquor companies.
"It would be patently unfair, and legally unsound, to impose on Cinemark, a private business in the entertainment industry, the duty and burden to have foreseen and prevented the criminal equivalent of a meteor falling from the sky," the motion said.
More worrying is the way that the settlement now forces the tobacco industry to perform duties that should be those of government.
The party's traditional answer would be to fortify PSA with state money or to protect the industry through import duties or quotas.
Kent Hance, a Texas Tech graduate who had served as United States Representative and as one of the three elected members of the Texas Board which regulates the oil-and-gas industry, assumed the duties of chancellor on December 1, 2006.
Bangladesh's government and industries have a moral duty to prevent catastrophes like the November fire from ever occurring again.
The Canadian industry says the new duties will force sawmills to close and eliminate thousands of jobs.
Or is this an extreme example of extractivism: an ideology that sees the defence of destructive industries as a holy duty, even when they trash more income and employment than they create?
Participants also provided information on each job they had held for at least 6 months including age started, duration in years, job title, main duties, employer, industry, hours per week and weeks per year worked, and whether the job involved night work, shiftwork, work at unusual hours or flying for work purposes more than once a month.
