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Vocabulary > Language > Acronyms and abbreviations > B
BA
British Airways
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/globalgateway.jsp/global/public/en_
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1933995,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ba/story/0,,1738631,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1483358,00.html
B /
Bn
Billion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/18/digital-content-expansion
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-09-26-war-funds_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-16-iraq-costs_x.htm
B&B
Bradford & Bingley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/29/bradfordbingley.banking3
BAE
British Aerospace
http://www.baesystems.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/10/bae.armstrade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/baefiles/0,,2086493,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jun/01/internationalnews1?picture=329962639
http://www.guardian.co.uk/baefiles/story/0,,2097448,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/baefiles/story/0,,2097149,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/baefiles/story/0,,2097098,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1972749,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1959446,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1418347,00.html
Baftas
British Academy Film Awards
http://www.bafta.org/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/baftas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/08/bafta-awards-2009-winners
BAT
British American Tobacco
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1855394,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1245998,00.html
B.B.F.
best banker friend
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/business/15chase.html
BB guns
Ball bearing guns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1559425,00.html
B&B
Bed and Breakfast
http://www.bed-breakfast-uk.com/
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/21/mps-interview-candidate-bbc-trust
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2047513,00.html
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1738653,00.html
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1667895,00.html
BBQ
barbecue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/cameron-obama-bbq-rules
BC
Before Christ
BET
Black Entertainment Television music awards
USA
http://www.bet.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/28/arts/AP-US-BET-Awards.html
BFI
British Film Institute
http://www.bfi.org.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/17/charles-dickens-bicentary-film-tv
bit
Binary digit
BK
Buckingham Palace
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page555.asp
BMA
British Medical Association
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/content/splashpage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/feb/15/nhs-reforms-bma-meldrum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/24/nhs.publicservices
bn
Billion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/08/banking.economy1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/31/subprimecrisis.creditcrunch
BNF
British National Front
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/0,,617119,00.html
BNP
British National Party
15.7.2004
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004322117,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/apr/09/bnp-candidate-arrested-quran-burning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/14/general-election-2010-fall-bnp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/cartoon/2009/oct/21/steve-bell-nick-griffin-cartoon
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/08/europe-bnp-nick-griffin
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alarm-over-rise-of-bnp-1628227.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bnp-links-to-immigration-service-staff-1334236.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2008/nov/19/bnp
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4023371.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4023454.ece
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,2229254,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1976649,00.html
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1687778,00.html
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1465160,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,1453480,00.html
bldg.
USA
building
BOJ
Bank of Japan
BP
British Petroleum
John Deering
The
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Cagle
24 May 2010
J.D. Crowe
Alabama -- The Mobile Register
Cagle
21 May 2010
1.11.2004
http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/arts/television/26spill.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/business/energy-environment/13bprisk.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/07/13/business/bp-timeline.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/business/30bp.html
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,16781,1684190,00.html
BSE
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/18/bse-vcjd-victims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/article/0,,1804539,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/0,,388290,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bse/article/0,,1945373,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,343393,00.html
BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
BST
British Summer Time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/25/british-summer-time-strengthen-nature
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/bst.htm
http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/bst/page12528.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/22/ukguns
BT
British Telecom
http://www.bt.com/
BTK
"bind, torture, kill"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-08-16-BTK-sentencing_x.htm
WICHITA, Kan. (Reuters) - A Kansas
man suspected of being the long-sought "BTK" serial murderer
appeared in court
on Tuesday and waived a preliminary hearing
on charges that he killed 10 people
in 17 years.
Dennis Rader spoke briefly, answering "yes sir"
when Judge Greg Waller asked
about his decision
to waive a detailed presentation of the charges against him.
Rader, 60, will enter a plea at his arraignment in Sedgwick County District
Court on May 3.
The former Boy Scout leader and city compliance officer
is charged with 10
counts of first-degree murder for killings between 1974 and 1991.
The first victims of BTK -- which
stands
for "bind, torture, kill"
-- were a
husband and wife and their two children. The last was a 62-year-old grandmother.
Rader was arrested in February after
a 31-year manhunt. In the 1970s and 1980s
the BTK killer terrorized Wichita and
taunted police with clues in letters and postcards.
BTK resurfaced last year,
offering more clues in various correspondence,
and investigators have said it
appears he wanted to be caught.
Rader will not face the death penalty
because Kansas did not adopt the death
penalty until 1994,
after the last known BTK crime was committed.
BTK Serial Killer Suspect Waives Kansas Hearing, R, Tue Apr 19,
2005 11:59 AM ET, full text,
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=01WOYG5NHJXOACRBAEKSFEY?type=topNews&storyID=8227801
Related
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/national/20btk.html
BTW
Between
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http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/help/help_acro.cfm
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information Act / police abbreviations
http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/abbreviations.htm
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and Commonwealth orders, decorations and medals
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/misc/medals.htm
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