Only about 30% of all Social Security beneficiaries receive private pensions, and various surveys indicate that about one-quarter of the retired depend on Social Security checks for 90% of their income.

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Although the activists did not know it, security officers told Mr Wade that their own private opinion surveys suggested he had lost.

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There is even a suggestion in some surveys that smaller businesses are tempted to use unlicensed security software, or, worse, that which they are offered for "free".

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