According to NCR, the payment details are encrypted and the transaction is securely processed by a cloud-based system.

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It examines the claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict people can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods.

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Work is now under way to ensure Scottish-based manufacturers of processed meat products have the right measures in place to prevent contamination.

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Travelocity, the largest Web-based travel agent, has 19 million registered users and processed 1.8 million transactions in the first quarter of this year.

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Also of note is that HHS conceded it will permit state-based exchanges, upon request, to have their individual mandate exemptions processed by a federally managed service, once again placing a bigger burden of the reform on the federal government.

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"This went on for four months, " says Bryan Sartin, a New York-based cybersleuth called in on the case by a big U.S. bank that processed transactions for the unnamed retailer (both companies decline to let Sartin identify them).

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