Outside Athens some in the public sector see their jobs as a sideline to earn pin money while their main occupation is farming.

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The main reason: inadequate collection resources at the IRS. Even considering the gigantic size of the federal government, this is not pin money.

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Brokerage firms often are in the midst of wrongdoing because they serve as the lynch-pin between pensions, money managers, pension consultants and securities trading.

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Transactions are made via text message, using PIN numbers to release the money.

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The rationale for curtailing merchant exchange fees rests on the belief that such fees are out-sized compared to the costs of issuance, which includes fraud-prevention measures such as entering a PIN number, but also refunding stolen money and replacing lost cards in the event of theft.

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The UK government admits it may not be able to pin down who, exactly, owns all the money in Swiss banks, and also expects some of the assets to be moved.

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When it came time to withdraw the money, they would text or email PIN numbers for the stolen cards to confederates around the world, who would execute coordinated ATM transactions at the same time, prosecutors said.

WSJ: Group Arrested in Alleged Global Cybercrime Thefts

Northern Ireland is nothing more than a pin point in the world yet it commands so much attention, it costs so much money to keep it ticking over.

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