That is the backdrop against which the paedophile scandal, now raging across Europe after its explosion in the United States, has to be understood.
His "found" color photographs of disasters, some of which are very big, are glued to cardboard backings and die-cut into puzzle pieces, like "TWA 800 No. 4," showing the reassembling of the plane's carcass in a hangar after its explosion in 1996.
CONGA LINES -- Wasting no time after its commercial explosion in 1999, Latin pop built some United States infrastructure in 2000.
The bunker buster is loaded with explosives and equipped with a fuse that delays its explosion until after the bomb has penetrated its target.
In 2005, the agency levied its largest penalty ever, spanking BP for $21 million after an explosion at its Texas City, Texas refinery killed 15.
Terrorists favor the ordinary kitchen device because they are so ubiquitous, and because they have a tight-fitting lid, which allows bomb-makers to pack shrapnel and explosive material closely, maximizing its acceleration after an explosion, and therefore injuries, defense experts in India said.
BP, for example, can't back off its promise to be "Beyond Petroleum," even despite the public lashings it received after shutting down its oilfields in Prudhoe Bay and after last year's explosion at its Texas City refinery.
The panel, led by James Baker, a former secretary of state, was commissioned by BP (on the recommendation of America's chemical-safety board) after an explosion at its Texan oil refinery in 2005 killed 15 people and injured 170 others.
At Ford Motor, where six workers died after an explosion at its River Rouge plant in 1999, the lost-workday rate was 20.4 in 2000, compared with 23.5 for Honda, though some of Ford's plants are half a century old.
The settlement, to be paid this year or next, ends a legal battle that began when a Houston judge ruled investors who bought shares shortly after the explosion at its Deepwater Horizon rig could sue BP.
The agency broke the news that BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had gone down after an explosion, and its subsequent investigative reports, including compelling videos, detailed many equipment and management failures that magnified the disaster, devastating the region's environment and economy.
