81.   President Bush supports the legislation and has described border security as one of his top priorities.

82.   --Prohibition of nonmarketable Treasury securities as an instrument of government finance.

83.   Reinsch went on to argue that the GAO was wrong to rank national security as the top priority for looking at this issue.

84.   Regulators recently gave banks the green light to purchase trust preferred securities as investments, provided they put aside enough capital to cover the risk.

85.   Ripken, it turned out, needed almost as much security as the chief executives.

86.   Rubin, himself, has pitched the new inflation-indexed securities as an ideal way to save for college tuition or retirement.

87.   Repurchase agreements are short-term loans backed by government securities as collateral.

88.   Securities firms involved in such debt offerings typically sell Treasury securities as a hedge until the deals are done.

89.   Should the U.S. adopt an even stronger stance and use international security as leverage?

90.   Some investors are flocking to short-term securities as a safe haven amid concern about stocks.