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The problem, though, is with the precedent, ... If you were a firefighter on 9-11 and you ran into the World Trade Center, your widow got $7 million or $8 million. But if you were a firefighter and you ran into a burning building on 9-12, your death benefit was something like $250,000.

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We feel like we're in a good, competitive position,

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I think you'll see a lot of third parties buying cards on behalf of their best customers.

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Oberthur

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They both think, ... that the law school betrayed them.

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 Law

We ask you to supply your two favorite pieces of biometric data — such as your right index finger and left thumb or right eye and left thumb.

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I would be surprised if there wasn't a registered traveler project up at one or all of the [New York] airports by September.

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We knew we couldn't launch more than 20 airports anyway in a year.

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 Airports

[Steven Brill, an attorney and author of a book on the aftermath of Sept. 11, says Feinberg's chart was certain to offend all families, regardless of income.] At the same time that some of the wealthy families are angry at him, the poor families are angry at him too, ... 'How dare Ken Feinberg do that? How dare someone put a value on human life that says that my husband and the father of my children is worth one-tenth of what this other person is worth?'

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No, ... This is the only time in history of this country that we've ever passed a law that says one person literally has the ability to write a check on his say-so to an American citizen with no appeal, with no way to stop it.

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