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Tyco International plans to split into three publicly traded home-security, pipes and valves, and fire-protection companies in about 12 months, its second breakup in four years.
What's News— 2011
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Still, having scared investors in April with a $30 billion approach, since abandoned, to security and fire-protection company Tyco International , Chief Executive Jean-Pascal Tricoire needed to reassure them he isn't letting an A-grade credit rating go to his head.
Schneider Joins Smart-Systems Asset Scramble Matthew Curtin 2011
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He was so sure of the product that he remortgaged his home to put on a dramatic demonstration of its fire-protection qualities.
Inside 'How They Blew It' getAbstract 2010
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Tyco International plans to split into three publicly traded home-security, pipes and valves, and fire-protection companies in about 12 months, its second breakup in less than 10 years.
What's News— 2011
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During a March meeting arranged by Hansa at the German office of a fire-protection equipment seller, a Petrokish representative recorded a memo on stationery bearing the logos of the Revolutionary Guard and the already-sanctioned Sepanir, according to a review of the document.
Sanctions Hit—and Miss—in German Trade With Iran David Crawford 2011
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China Fire & Security jumped 1.14, or 16%, to 8.47, after Bain Capital Partners and other investors agreed to take the company private in a deal that values the Chinese maker of industrial fire-protection systems at about $266 million.
Blue Chips Take Europe Medicine Brendan Conway 2011
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With an additional $8.5 million the state put toward the fire-protection plan in 2010, about 60 firefighters were hired.
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But the reports detail potential safety gaps at some of the 104 commercial reactors in the U.S. One repeated problem involves fire-protection systems at risk for earthquake damage.
Safety Gaps Found at Nuclear Plants Rebecca Smith 2011
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The Forest Service concedes that even the full fire-protection system would not have completely spared Texas from last week's catastrophic fires, which incinerated more than 1,700 homes, blackened tens of thousands of acres and killed four people.
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Hansa took over some contracts that had been drafted between Salzgitter and Sepanir to supply the Iranians with fire-protection equipment and other technical energy-industry needs—fulfilling the orders for Petrokish instead, commercial records show.
Sanctions Hit—and Miss—in German Trade With Iran David Crawford 2011
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