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BA
British Airways UK
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/oct/29/
terrorismandtravel.britishairways
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/mar/24/
britishairways.occupationalpensions
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/may/13/
theairlineindustry.britishairwaysbusiness
Bachelor of Arts
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/05/
rick-perrys-plan-10000-for-a-ba
BAME
black and minority ethnic
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/18/
over-three-quarters-of-bame-doctors-fear-they-will-contract-covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/
why-are-people-from-bame-groups-dying-disproportionately-of-covid-19
B&B
1 - Bed and Breakfast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/19/uk-spends-2bn-housing-homeless-short-term
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/sep/07/best-new-british-bed-breakfasts
2 -
Bradford & Bingley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/29/bradfordbingley.banking3
B /
Bn
Billion
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/23/
christmas-shoppers-battle-with-windy-weather
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/04/facebook-1bn-users
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
BAE
British Aerospace
https://www.theguardian.com/world/bae
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/10/bae.armstrade
https://www.theguardian.com/world/bae
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/07/bae.foreignpolicy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/07/bae1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/07/bae12
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/15/saudiarabia.armstrade
Baftas
British Academy Film Awards
UK
http://www.bafta.org/
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/baftas-2016-television
BAT
British American Tobacco
https://www.theguardian.com/business/britishamericantobacco
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/
big-tobacco-dirty-war-africa-market
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/aug/22/
smoking.frontpagenews
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2004/jun/24/
smoking
B.B.F.
best banker friend
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/
business/15chase.html
BB guns
Ball bearing guns
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/aug/31/
localgovernment.uknews
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation UK
http://www.bbc.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/21/mps-interview-candidate-bbc-trust
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/apr/01/broadcasting.bbc
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/mar/24/broadcasting.bbc
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/dec/15/broadcasting.bbc
BBQ
barbecue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/
cameron-obama-bbq-rules
BC
Before Christ
BCG
Bacille
Calmette Guerin BCG
BCG vaccine
The BCG
vaccine
protects
against tuberculosis,
which is
also known as TB.
TB is a serious infection
that
affects the lungs
and
sometimes other parts of the body,
such as the
bones, joints and kidneys.
It can also
cause meningitis.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/bcg-tuberculosis-tb-vaccine/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/bcg-tuberculosis-tb-vaccine/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/apr/30/
covid-19-what-has-the-bcg-vaccine-got-to-do-with-it-podcast
BDSM
Bondage, Domination and
Sado-Masochism
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/28/
i-see-lockdown-as-a-chance-for-more-bdsm-but-my-girlfriend-doesnt
BET
Black Entertainment Television music awards
USA
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2020/jun/29/
the-bet-awards-from-beyonce-to-michelle-obama-in-pictures
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/
534435492/bet-awards-wields-and-exerts-its-influence-beyond-black-america
B.F.F.
BFF has two definitions
the most common of which is
Best
Friends Forever
the other is the complete opposite
and is:
Big Fat Fuck
http://fr.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFF
http://fr.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFF
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/
624059365/how-did-steven-seagal-and-vladimir-putin-become-bffs-bob-van-ronkel-introduced-t
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/
smarter-living/how-to-combat-your-anxiety-one-step-at-a-time.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/01/
476168494/cyndi-lauper-charts-her-own-path-thanks-in-part-to-patsy-cline
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/
fashion/how-apples-siri-became-one-autistic-boys-bff.html
BFI
British Film Institute UK
http://www.bfi.org.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/17/
charles-dickens-bicentary-film-tv
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bios.htm
bit
Binary digit
BK
Buckingham Palace
https://www.royal.uk/
BLM
1 - Black Lives Matter
USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/09/
955221274/now-the-world-gets-to-see-the-difference-blm-protesters-on-the-capitol-attack
2 - Bureau of Land Management
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/
806783253/blm-acting-director-defends-agencys-controversial-move-to-colorado
BMA
British Medical Association UK
https://www.bma.org.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/
feb/15/nhs-reforms-bma-meldrum
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jan/24/
nhs.publicservices
BMJ
British Medical Journal
UK
https://www.bmj.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/
common-painkillers-linked-to-increase-risk-of-heart-failure-bmj-finds
http://www.theguardian.com/science/sifting-the-evidence/2013/oct/21/
medical-research-health
BMX
Bicycle Motor "Cross"
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2018/07/04/
624046774/bmx-in-the-bronx
bn
billion
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/08/
banking.economy1
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/dec/31/
subprimecrisis.creditcrunch
BNF
British National Front
BNP
British National Party

15 July 2004
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004322117,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/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
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/18/politics.thefarright
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/21/thefarright.topstories3
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/jan/16/searchengines.farrightpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/21/ukgeneralelection2005.politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/apr/06/farrightpolitics.television
bldg.
building
BOJ
Bank of Japan
BOP
The Federal Bureau of Prisons USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/
537076246/federal-report-criticizes-harsh-treatment-of-lewisburg-prisoners
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/
opinion/bad-prison-policy-for-women.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-22-
prison-screening_x.htm
BP
British Petroleum

John Deering
The
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Editorial cartoon
Cagle
24 May 2010

J.D. Crowe
Alabama -- The Mobile Register
Cagle
21 May 2010

1 November 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
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2006/jan/11/money.oilandpetrol
BPA
bisphenol-A USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/13/
647246241/study-bpa-safety
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/06/
555900292/which-items-in-our-kitchens-contain-bpa
BS
bullshit
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/28/
774067928/bs-jobs-how-meaningless-work-wears-us-down
BSE
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/bse
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/dec/18/bse-vcjd-victims
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jun/23/bse.davidbatty
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/11/food.bse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/oct/26/qanda.bse
BSOD
Blue Screen of Death
https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-blue-screen-of-death.htm
BST
British Summer Time UK
https://greenwichmeantime.com/info/bst.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/mar/25/british-
summer-time-strengthen-nature
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/22/ukguns
BT
British Telecom
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/business/btgroup
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
1 - between
2 - by the way
http://fr.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=btw
BYU
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/22/
552894537/for-the-first-time-in-decades-caffeinated-sodas-on-sale-at-byu-dining-halls
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