After the June protest, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, flush with oil revenue, promised to double the public-security budget.
Recent break-ins at Facebook and Apple have weary IT teams double checking networks and systems for security holes.
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Each security there pays nearly double the benchmark T-bill.
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On homeland security, Democrats tried to double the number of containers at ports and airports checked for weapons of mass destruction.
As a result, same-sex couples could pay as much as double the payroll tax that finances Social Security that an opposite-sex couple would pay.
What it does is lead us, on the one hand, to expose, condemn, shame, punish and isolate the malefactors and, on the other hand, to create better security systems, oversight and double-checking.
First some gory details about entitlement spending: As the 78 million baby boomers begin retiring over the next few years, under business-as-usual scenarios, spending on their Social Security and health care will more than double by 2050 to about 18% of the GDP.
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Each bankruptcy trust operates by its own rules, and they have resisted efforts to share even basic information, such as the Social Security numbers of claimants, to weed out double-dipping.
Add in the big contributions that employers must make to China's national security fund system and the total cost of an employee can be double his basic pay.
Mo Farah, Britain's double long-distance champion at the London Games, said he was comfortable with security planning as he prepares to run a half marathon.
Bringing them into Social Security would bolster the system's reserves and also end the "double dipping" that permits federal employees to retire early on a civil service pension, work for a few years in a job in private industry, and qualify for a Social Security pension too.
My own estimate is that there are about 10, 000 white hat security researchers working full time to counter malware (100 vendors X 50 average and double that for independents.) I am still working on an estimate of the number arrayed on the other side of this battle ground.
To reduce our dependency on foreign oil, we need to stop subsidizing oil companies that are already making record profits, and double down on clean energy, that creates jobs and creates opportunities in new industries but also improves our security, because we're not as dependent on foreign oil.
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This shift, however, wields a double-edged sword: while enjoying the freedom to adopt technologies of their choosing, few employees grasp the security, regulatory, scalability, integration and other risks and costs these new tools create.
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