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  • Danisco deal is the first transformative deal of Ms. Kullman's two-year tenure at the helm of DuPont, which has seen her continue the company's shift from its commodity chemical roots toward faster-growing product areas such as Kevlar body-armor, photovoltaic cells and high-tech seeds.

    DuPont to Continue Talks With Danisco Doug Cameron 2011

  • Ms. Kullman has continued the company's diversification out of its traditional focus on chemicals into faster-growing product areas such as Kevlar body-armor, photovoltaic cells and high-tech seeds.

    DuPont Succeeds in Bid for Danisco Jens Hansegard 2011

  • Using a snitch named Richard Bistrong who was a former target of a Justice investigation and who worked for body-armor supplier Armor Holdings now a subsidiary of British defense company BAE Systems, prosecutors indicted companies and individuals in the military and police products industry.

    Justice's Bribery Racket 2012

  • The founder of a body-armor maker once located on Long Island was convicted on insider trading and other charges Tuesday in a more-than $190 million alleged scheme to overstate the company's financial performance and to misappropriate millions of dollars in corporate funds for his own use.

    CEO Convicted In Trading Case 2010

  • I put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask.

    Adrienne Rich, the wreck and not the story of the wreck, the thing itself Lemon Hound 2009

  • DuPont is more diversified than most of its rivals and produces seeds and fertilizers as well as a variety of chemicals and materials used in products from Kevlar body-armor to Tyvek house wrap and Corian countertops.

    DuPont Posts Loss, but Sees 2009

  • Used body-armor vests were sold by an Army staff sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and a senior airman with the Air Force Reserve in North Dakota, despite Pentagon regulations that forbid military personnel from selling such items.

    Easy Shopping for Terrorists? 2008

  • -- Needlessly endangering our troops: He sent in our troops without sufficient body-armor or protection for their military vehicles, a decision that has needlessly killed hundreds of them.

    Fred Branfman: President Bush is Endangering Our Lives 7: Mismanaging the Military 2008

  • You hold the banning riot-baton ... as well as editorial body-armor and textual plastic handcuffs.

    Time To Call Your Congressional Reps to Demand Hearings on Police Abuse of Journalists 2008

  • Notice also that all that money spent on fancy hardware didn't include money for body-armor.

    The Military: A Political Machine 2008

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