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PEA
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PEAPoblación Económicamente Activa (Spanish: Economically Active Population; economics)
PEAPlan d'Epargne en Actions (French stock thrift)
PEAPhenylethylamine
PEAPhillips Exeter Academy (secondary school)
PEAPopulação Economicamente Ativa (Portuguese: Economically Active Population)
PEAPulseless Electrical Activity
PEAPhosphoethanolamine
PEAPreliminary Endangerment Assessment
PEAPreliminary Environmental Assessment
PEAProfessional Employees Association (Canada)
PEAPhoenix East Aviation (flight school; Florida)
PEAProjeto Esperança Animal (Brazil, Portuguese)
PEAPreemptive Attack
PEAPocket Ethernet Adapter
PEAPortuguese East Africa (now Mozambique)
PEAPsychic Entertainers Association
PEAPreliminary Economic Analysis
PEApoly ethyl acrylate
PEAPolyether Amine (automotive fuel additive)
PEAPrimary Education Advisor
PEAPlanning Emphasis Area
PEAProcurement Executives' Association
PEAPotentially Explosive Atmosphere
PEAPoudre Education Association (Colorado)
PEADepartamento de Energia e Automação Elétricas (Portugese; POLI - USP São Paulo, Brazil)
PEAPerformance Evaluation Audit
PEAPolicy Enforcement Agent
PEAProfessional Engineer and Architect
PEAPacific Energy Associates, Inc.
PEAPalestine Energy Authority
PEAPoint Evidence Analysis (writing guideline mnemonic)
PEAPeace Establishment Authority
PEAProgram Element Administrator
PEAPublic Economic Agency
PEAProgramme Exoertise et Appui
PEAPlease Ensure Attendance


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MORE THAN FOUR YEARS AFTER 9/11 AND THREE years into the war in Iraq, the patriotism and certitude that fueled our country's preemptive attack on Saddam Hussein's regime has dissipated somewhat.
Tactical terror: Americans should take a lesson from the past. In ... by McCormick, Patrick / U.S. Catholic
And yes, Hussein harbored dreams of hurting us--something the Bush administration is now spinning to justify a preemptive attack.
It's time to come clean: too many dead to ignore war cries by Albom, Mitch / Los Angeles Business Journal
Relying on mere suspicions and not hard fact, statesmen can be tempted to condone preemptive attack.
Preemptive war: what would Aquinas say? by Reichberg, Gregory M. / Commonweal
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