He said the company had already removed the final salary section of the pension scheme and was now trying to "bind up what's on the table with a whole load of strings".

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" Juan Carlos Zarate, a Bush deputy national security adviser, sums up the "bind" as follows: "These are the same issues we've been grappling with for years that are uncomfortable given our legal structures and the nature of the threat.

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