By providing the call center with a name, address, even the 9-digits of a social security number and the targeted account number, the criminal is able to reset a 4-to-6-digit ATM or Credit Card PIN.

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Blacks prefer to address him more formally, while whites prefer to call him by his first name, (a sign of disrespect in black church culture), Woo says.

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He will also call for state-of-the-art debriefing procedures run by counsellors to address the emotional reactions of staff to incidents.

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In my case, from the first call that they were cancelling my installation visit until the 6 days spent by VZ restoring my static IP address, I also spent two days with no phone service on two phone lines and two different days without service on the other two lines.

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When Yemen's 2011 uprising led to the al Qaeda invasion of Abyan -- the southern province of Yemen -- Washington was quick to call on newly elected President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi to set his house in order and address militarily the threat posed by al-Qaeda in the country.

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