11.   A smaller proportion of African-Americans receive retirement benefits and, when they do, their monthly benefit check is smaller on average, due to lower earnings.

12.   AirTran Airways also has flight attendants do the checks.

13.   Brett Pickett has said several people have expressed interest in buying the team and the franchise has started doing background checks on at least four interested buyers.

14.   But for reasons that are not known, no such checks were done on the guests recommended by the Democratic National Committee.

15.   But it can ensure the integrity of the Brady Law by passing legislation that puts the burden on gun dealers for getting checks done.

16.   But letting a private company do security checks for federal workers?

17.   But the agency has been embarrassed by repeated findings that not even those checks have been done.

18.   But the county has yet to do computerized checks of its own because county officials are unsure if that would violate the county policy on background investigations.

19.   Cheney acknowledged the difficulty of filling high-level government positions until the FBI starts doing background checks.

20.   Currently, background checks are done only for firearms purchased from licensed gun dealers.