91.   Some Japanese officials have suggested Japan would sell parts of its holdings of foreign securities as part of the bank bailout plan.

92.   So congressional Republicans have turned a laserlike focus to national security as a way to distinguish themselves from Clinton.

93.   Still, Clinton sought to reassure the Israelis that the United States would continue to guarantee their security as the peace process with Syria unfolds.

94.   Still, a White House official described the federal assumption of airport security as a sweeping measure, one that will require the creation of a new agency.

95.   Still, for all the bad news, CBS thought it would find some security as the new TV home of the Winter Olympics.

96.   The alternative would be for the Fed to lend cash to the Japanese central bank while holding the Treasury securities as collateral.

97.   The apparent unwillingness to lend securities in the repo market has driven the cost of short-term borrowing using Treasury securities as collateral to near zero.

98.   The change proposed by Clinton would affect investors who buy and sell such securities as stocks, bonds, options and mutual funds.

99.   The committee also professes to fear a shortage of normal Treasury securities as the government continues to run surplus after surplus.

100.   The danger is that measures taken against an overblown threat can do as much harm to national security as the espionage they were meant to thwart.