She donated every year to a long list of organizations and she spent a lot of time writing out checks, addressing them, and mailing them off.

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Some opponents had worried that records kept of background checks could enable the government to compile a national list of gun owners and potentially seize their firearms.

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Baier has a list of people he wants to keep, and checks on them regularly.

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In addition to turning your browser into a speed demon, this optional setting also uses Safe Browsing, which checks the sites you're visiting against a list of potential threats for malware and phishing.

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There were more checks than crosses on the list, but a reasonable number of crosses too.

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Ms Cooper said border agencies had told of "repeated cases where adults were not having passports swiped with no checks against the watch list".

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At the same time that the EEOC is practically rewriting the law to add "criminal offender" to the list of protected groups under civil-rights statutes, the agency refuses to disclose whether it uses criminal background checks for its own hiring.

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Aside from the relative ease with which attackers guess passwords, once they have stolen the list of usernames and hashed ( a one-way algorithm used to hide data) passwords, the attacker just checks a dictionary of hashed words against the hashed passwords to find matches.

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