Max was a middle-class boy who lived in another type of neighborhood, one perched between affluence and despair.

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The Federal Air Marshal Service officially began in 1968 as the Federal Aviation Administration's Sky Marshal Program, and in the 1970s, extortion-type hijackings in the Middle East led to the deployment of some air marshals overseas.

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This would subject the Middle East to the risk of a Chernobyl-type catastrophe.

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Middle-market companies were among the most represented company type in the survey.

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We gamers are familiar with endless amounts of Call of Duty-type shooters placing us in the middle of dangerous missions to take out high profile targets, and rarely do we ever hear about operations of this caliber in real life.

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As a result, every type of company involved with a debit card transaction, from the middle-man payment processing service to the company that owns the processing network to the bank that issues the card stands to have reduced revenue than they would have had otherwise.

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The type of home also matters: A mansion will fetch more than an average middle-class house, although movies need a lot of those, too.

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