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CFO August 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan	High Court Upholds Health-Care Reform The Supreme Court's ruling leaves companies with decisions to make.
CFO August 1, 2012 Edward Teach	Defensive Maneuvers Defense contractor Exelis is ready to adjust to an era of reduced Pentagon spending, says CFO Peter Milligan.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Feds Fear Coordinated Physical, Cyber-Attacks on Electrical Grids Electrical grids in the United States are vulnerable to both cyber-attacks and space weather, federal officials have said.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell.
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson	Storm Brewing Over BioWatch3 Program Department of Homeland Security officials in July went to Capitol Hill to give House lawmakers a briefing and demonstration of the BioWatch3 program, which is designed to alert authorities to the release of potentially deadly biological weapons on U.S. soil.
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel	'Super' Camera Puts Human Eye to Shame The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Duke University recently tested a camera that can read street signs and license plates from more than 270 yards away.
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel	Tiny Musician Robots Could Benefit Soldiers University of Pennsylvania researchers have been attracting attention for their work with nano-quadrotor robots.
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel	Invention Helps Troops Scale Walls Like Superheroes West Point cadets recently teamed up with Army Research Laboratory scientists to develop an anchoring system that can help soldiers scale buildings and mountain faces at high altitudes. They call it their "Batman design."
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Donna Borak	Dodd-Frank Reforms Inch Along In the first year after passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, regulators made some progress implementing the law. Now they have essentially ground to a halt.
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Alan J. Foxman	FINRA's New Suitability Rule I'm a compliance officer for a small brokerage firm. I'm a little confused by FINRA's new suitability rule. What, if anything, extra does it require us to do?
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