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Apr. 6th, 2003 04:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbOh, and:
A genial, Texas-born engineering Ph.D., Dr. McQueary is now the government's chief contact with the scientists, technicians and entrepreneurs who are searching for ways to help their companies profit from the public's understandable fixation with keeping their families and communities safe from terrorism — a threat that probably has grown as a result of the war with Iraq.What Liberal Media?
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"The money is just beginning to flow," said Bruce Aitken, a Washington lawyer and lobbyist who is president of the Homeland Security Industries Association, a trade group that has signed up more than 100 companies as members since it was incorporated in July.
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After a year of corporate scandal and criminal charges against executives, the employees of Tyco International were probably entitled to a little good news, and they got it as a result of the February alert. Tyco is one of the world's largest makers of duct tape, and demand was so strong for its Nashua-brand tape that it switched the production line at its Kentucky plant to making residential duct tape instead of the commercial variety.
