31.   Currently, issuers treat the securities as debt to deduct interest payments from taxes.

32.   Dealers will often sell Treasury securities as a hedge against losses from a large deal, and then unwind those hedge positions once the deal is complete.

33.   Domestic air travel has not, up to now, involved the same stringent security as international flights.

34.   Federal banking regulators should oversee bank loans using securities as collateral, he said.

35.   Experts have long seen such iron-clad security as a necessary first step before commercial transactions can become common on the Internet, the global computer network.

36.   From Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, presidents of both parties saw American security as resting in significant part on collective arrangements, defined in treaties.

37.   General obligation municipal bonds are considered second only to United States Treasury securities as the safest form of debt and are typically bought by the most conservative investors.

38.   Fuqua says gang members ultimately made it possible, crediting various members of the Crips and Bloods factions for providing security as bodyguards.

39.   Gains among tax-exempt bonds lagged those posted by benchmark U.S. Treasury securities as an abundance of bonds swelled dealer inventories.

40.   He and many others in Congress think the aviation safety system is as crucial to national security as the U.S. Customs Service and other federal enforcement agencies.