"It amounted to the sort of front-end screen the credit-card industry does at the point of sale, " says assistant IRS commissioner Ted Brown.

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Sherrod Brown, Ted Strickland and Marcy Kaptur, and state Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick.

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Senators Bill Nelson, George LeMieux, representatives who are here today -- we got Jeff Miller and Corrine Brown and Ted Deutch.

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Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and a former speechwriter for the Clinton White House, edited the two volumes.

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The board also includes Robert Brown, creator of Soldier of Fortune magazine, and rock guitarist Ted Nugent.

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So when iconic liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy died in late 2009, the state upended the national political scene by electing Scott Brown, a likeable centrist Republican, to fill in the last two years of his term.

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The Republicans say that in Mr Burns they have found their very own version of Scott Brown, the Republican who destroyed the Democrats' supermajority in the Senate last January by capturing Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat in Democratic Massachusetts.

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