Todd obtained Social Security numbers from dozens of Atlanta women who lived in public housing projects.

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Earlier in his career, Salem was a vice president at Security Pacific Merchant Bank, where he led projects for the development of real-time trading systems.

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It would likewise cue foreign companies to the importance of implementing a robust security-minded risk-anagement program to oversee projects and transactions in sensitive countries, something already embraced by some leading Japanese and European firms.

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Few countries have scrapped existing projects, but many of these are in danger because of security concerns, and most fresh proposals are on hold.

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All recognized that pet projects and sacred cows had to meet the tests of commonly defined national security priorities or be reduced or jettisoned.

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It seems clear that Mr Obama is willing to scale back or scrap projects that are of decreasing relevance to America's 21st-century security requirements, or have become embarrassing money pits.

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The day's activities in Chardon highlighted the anniversary but served to keep students busy with projects including writing messages of support, artwork, memorial wreaths and making security blankets for future victims of tragedies.

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And initially when community groups started to form health care projects in the late 1930s, they really saw this as an expansion of the Social Security Act that it passed in 1935.

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Moreover, most of these potential front-burner challenges to vital U.S. security interests involve ostensibly civilian nuclear reactor projects.

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