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  • One of our global businesses, Explosives, is already run from Canada and we recently strengthened it through the acquisition of a major U.S. based explosives company, the Atlas Powder Co.

    Pushing the Perimeters—The Changing International Business Scene 1990

  • The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is mired in a separate controversy over an Arizona gun-tracking operation gone awry, will administer the new regulation in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

    New Rules on Border Gun Sales Evan Perez 2011

  • In its report, the GAO highlighted the TSA's botched attempt to deploy so-called Explosives Trace Portals (ETP) at airport checkpoints as an example of what can go wrong with technologies that are not properly vetted.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • In its report, the GAO highlighted the TSA's botched attempt to deploy so-called Explosives Trace Portals (ETP) at airport checkpoints as an example of what can go wrong with technologies that are not properly vetted.

    CIO News 2010

  • In its report, the GAO highlighted the TSA's botched attempt to deploy so-called Explosives Trace Portals (ETP) at airport checkpoints as an example of what can go wrong with technologies that are not properly vetted.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • In its report, the GAO highlighted the TSA's botched attempt to deploy so-called Explosives Trace Portals (ETP) at airport checkpoints as an example of what can go wrong with technologies that are not properly vetted.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • While bin Laden did not list an educational institution, he did list "Explosives" and "Financing for Charitable Front Organizations" as his courses of study.

    Bin Laden Found on MySpace 2007

  • In the bedroom of their home on Northwood near Walnut Grove and Highland, police found an automatic rifle, seven live hand grenades and a safe with warnings that read "Explosives"

    Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

  • I wonder if they were given a good referance by Bradley Buckles, the former director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), who was hired to head up the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit?

    MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe? 2009

  • The report, prepared by the joint staffs of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, states that the activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents involved in the strategy — known as Operation Fast and Furious — were approved by top ATF officials in Phoenix, despite concerns raised by some field agents who believed the practice was potentially deadly.

    ATF program tracking guns put agents at risk, report says 2011

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