BUSINESS MEMO: NEW $5 & $10 BILLS

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Monday, November 22, 1999

WASHINGTON -- -- Get ready. A big Abe Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton -- part of new $5 and $10 bills aimed at tripping up high-tech counterfeiters --4 will be coming to a cash register or ATM near you by the middle of 2000.Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers unveiled the new bills Tuesday that include a number of new features, but it's the bigger and slightly off-center portraits -- much like what was done to President Jackson on last year's new $20 -- that people will notice first.

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