One startling example of the effects of increased security liability for SMBs lies with a small, family-owned construction company in Maine, PATCO Construction.

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In fact, Mr Rafsanjani, who was Iran's president between 1989 and 1997 and had hoped to be speaker, had become such a liability to his supporters that he had to quit to save the Servants of Construction, Iran's first pro-reform faction, which he helped to create in 1996.

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