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Maureen is happy to forget the whole scene—until Dennis is found dead and the candidate the head of his own private-security firm starts intimidating Maureen and her family.
Far-Flung Secret Ops, Shadowy Local Conspiracies Tom Nolan 2011
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At least one armed guard from a private-security company will be on duty at all times to ensure Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who also is subject to electronic monitoring, doesn't violate his detention.
Strauss-Kahn Lawyers Protest Media Leaks Chad Bray 2011
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The menacing link between these possibilities is a private-security firm operating without accountability near the scientist's dig.
Supernatural Suspense and Mundane Wonders Tom Nolan 2011
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Whereas Damages, still sleekly suspenseful and lethally cynical, reboots by jumping three years ahead in the lives of cunning power lawyer Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and her estranged protégé Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), whose crusading idealism is challenged by her latest very topical cause: the unregulated and possibly illegal excesses of a private-security military contractor in Afghanistan.
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Josh: They've formed their own private-security firm, Carmichael Industries, because Volkoff Timothy Dalton left them all this money.
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First, even if State could obtain the funds for more than doubling its private-security force, it is not clear that it has the trained personnel to manage and oversee contract performance of a kind that has already shown the potential for creating tragic incidents and frayed relations with host countries.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid David Isenberg 2010
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Webster, a former construction and private-security entrepreneur whose tattoos cover about 85% of his body.
Occupying Kandahar Anne Jolis 2011
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& Amplifications The last name of Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, was misspelled as di Mistura in a Monday World News article about Western officials 'concerns over a planned private-security ban in that country.
Corrections 2010
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First, even if State could obtain the funds for more than doubling its private-security force, it is not clear that it has the trained personnel to manage and oversee contract performance of a kind that has already shown the potential for creating tragic incidents and frayed relations with host countries.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid David Isenberg 2010
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Buttivant claims he was frozen out of talks to buy the club and has now called in Xfor, a private-security firm run by Parachute Regiment veterans, to investigate events at Home Park over last season and this summer.
Not everyone thinks Peter Ridsdale's £1 deal is good value for Argyle | Matt Scott 2011
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