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BSR – blind shear rams (blowout preventer) BSML – below sea mean level; BS&W – basic sediments and water; BT – buoyancy tank; BTEX – benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene and xylene; BTHL – bottom hole log; BTO/C – break to open/close (valve torque) BTU – British thermal units; BTU – Board of Trade Unit (1 kWh) (historical) BU ...
GAO—Government Accountability Office (General Accounting Office) (US) (government) GATT—General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government) GDP—gross domestic product (economics) GEF—Global Environmental Facility (environment) Genco—Any company doing electricity generation (US) (electricity) GFN—Global Footprint Network
BSR may refer to: Backslash-R, a class of options in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions; Basrah International Airport, IATA code; Vasai Road railway station, Mumbai, India, station code; Birmingham Sound Reproducers or BSR McDonald, a former UK audio manufacturer; Bit Scan Reverse, find first set x86 instruction
Industrial manufacture began during World War II, and was used extensively by the U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program to produce Government Rubber-Styrene (GR-S); to replace the Southeast Asian supply of natural rubber which, under Japanese occupation, was unavailable to Allied nations.
For example, $225K would be understood to mean $225,000, and $3.6K would be understood to mean $3,600. Multiple K's are not commonly used to represent larger numbers. In other words, it would look odd to use $1.2KK to represent $1,200,000. Ke – Is used as an abbreviation for Cost of Equity (COE).
A borderline form is as follows: Complete outsourcing or contracting out, with a privately owned corporation delivering the entire service on behalf of the government. This may be considered a mixture of private sector operations with public ownership of assets, although in some forms the private sector's control and/or risk is so great that ...
The first limitation surrounds its definition and mistaken classification of employee groups. For example, administrative assistants in the automotive industry support all levels of the business, yet the SIC defines these employees as part of the "Basic Sector" of manufacturing jobs when they should be reported as "Non-Basic." Secondly, SIC ...
The armed forces and government agencies frequently employ acronyms; some well-known examples from the United States are among the "alphabet agencies" (jokingly referred to as "alphabet soup") created under the New Deal by Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself known as "FDR"). Business and industry also coin acronyms prolifically.