Despite his hopes that a compromise will be reached, Clinton said that there is also disagreement over the length of time allowed to conduct the background check 24 hours versus 72 hours.

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JFK, deploy arm's-length iris cameras to replace passport inspection, expedite check-in and control access to restricted areas.

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Remove the indie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from the list, by comparison a short subject at 93 minutes, and the average running time jumps to 141 long minutes, a length that sorely tests the ever-shortening patience of most viewers not to check their phones for texts.

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Some commitments (my pay check) were of a short-term nature, others (pension accrual) run over the whole length of my employment.

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