Word: swats
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...attacked New York City and Washington--home to many customers, including the Pentagon, that use Veritas products to manage the storage of data on everything from customer accounts to employee benefits. The Veritas execs prayed that their clients had escaped unharmed, but in the meantime they mobilized six "SWAT teams" of technicians to be dispatched when summoned by bewildered companies trying to reclaim their data--and their future...
However, the University is being careful not to overact. Although HUPD’s officers are armed—unlike police at schools like Brown—there are no plans to offer specialized so-called SWAT training or to start a University bomb squad. For those services, the University will continue to rely on the Boston police and the State Police...
...poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The NFL canceled its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City alone. People wore sneakers with their suits in case they had to fly fast down the stairs. Even after a SWAT team stormed a plane on the tarmac at Kennedy Airport to detain what it feared was the next wave of killers, no one had imagined this was over. It isn't. It may never be. We are on our way to a different place, and we will never hear...
...It’s like the SWAT team or something,” she says. “I like...
...Immediately after the bombing, liberal politicians and commentators began suggesting that this would hurt President Bush's plan for a national missile defense. Their logic: if terrorists can wreak such havoc with airplanes and box cutters, what good is a massively expensive system designed to swat back incoming intercontinental missiles? "This is going to raise a lot of questions about missile defense," Democratic Senator John Kerry told TIME. But it's not hard to imagine a different scenario. Suddenly the threat of rogue states and massively organized terrorist groups getting hold of a missile doesn't seem as farfetched. Indeed...