But concerns persist among the population about the sweeping changes ahead for Bhutan, which has guarded its traditions and identity.
State Street Research and Management, the country's second-oldest mutual fund manager, which has guarded the fortunes of generations of patrician Bostonians, inaugurated its Athletes fund last autumn and hired a retired Bruins hockey star, Derek Sanderson, as resident rainmaker.
There are other startups generally in this space, but the real heavyweight (we hear) is Mint, which has guarded the specifics of its service closely.
In an important victory, the Union Navy captured the forts, which had guarded the mouth of the bay.
Last month, Exelon, the country's largest provider of nuclear power, fired Wackenhut, which had guarded each of its 10 nuclear plants.
On Friday the museum said it would repatriate the life-size sandstone masterworks, known as the Kneeling Attendants, which have guarded the doorway to the Met's Southeast Asian galleries since they opened in 1994.
Two of the most distinctive were a gilded wood carving of the Angel Gabriel, which had guarded the entrance to a tavern in upstate New York for 150 years, and a gold-leaf sheet-iron weather vane, which depicted a now-extinct long-billed shore bird, a Hudsonian curlew.
Ms. Sontag's admirers are not mass market and probably care less about her private life, which she has guarded quite well, than about her writing and her causes.
Instead, they have been subjected to a decades-long exile in which the Turkish Army has guarded Varosha, enclosing it with barbed wire and allowing only nature to reclaim it.
One pioneer of commercial micro-malting, Jason Cody of the Colorado Malting Company in Alamosa, Colo., said it was difficult simply learning the details of the process, which brewers have guarded like a trade secret.
Neither NATO nor the United Nations, both of which track assassinations, had any record of the mass beheadings, of the Maktab Bazaar killings or of the two men killed after Mr. Khan's capture, reflecting the intense secrecy with which villagers have guarded the deaths.
