President Medvedev asked officials to increase security on the public transport system nationwide.
He proposes tax cuts that are modest by Republican standards, more than half of them targeted on the poorest taxpayers, and wants most of the budget surplus to go on financing the transition costs of reforming the Social Security (public pensions) system.
Since the last seven digits of a phone number are not unique and are in the public domain, the security of the system would be undermined if two users' fingerprints were similar enough to generate a false acceptance.
Under EU law, member states have the right to block foreign takeovers only if they threaten a plural media, public security or a country's financial system.
Then there are India's notoriously fickle public distribution system shops aimed at providing food security to people.
Some California legislators were outraged last year when they discovered that CalPERS, the powerful California Public Employees' Retirement System, never considered national-security concerns in its investment decisions.
This reality is inescapable and is the reason why the real determinant of the feasibility of Social Security (or any other type of retirement system, private or public) is productivity.
Importantly, and with greater public welcome than anyone foresaw, private funds have been brought into the social-security system.
The public opposes raising Social Security taxes, cutting benefits, or hiking the retirement age to shore up the system.
America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.
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