And the possibility of a "lone wolf" attacker has some in the intelligence community concerned.
"Lone wolf" terrorists are a threat as well, as we've seen recently in Norway and France.
Ford is working on hybrid vehicles with Toyota, once a lone wolf but now a keen co-operator.
So what, if anything, can be done to prevent lone wolf attacks?
Was it al Qaeda, a homegrown terror group or a lone wolf?
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Are we now looking at someone who is not a lone wolf but someone who might have connections to an overseas plot?
Christian Fraser says the leaked report does not dispel French police's current working theory that the gunman was local and a "lone wolf".
In our global, networked economy, the lone wolf is rapidly becoming an anachronism, one that threatens to impede innovation rather than fostering it.
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So far, the PM has preferred to remain a "lone wolf, " not just within his party but also in the faction to which he belongs.
But radicalization expert Maher said monitoring the internet and tracking down anyone who downloads an al-Awlaki speech or a bomb-making guide won't solve the lone wolf problem.
In just two weeks' time the company has gone from a potential free agent, to a lone wolf, and then back to prospective purchase.
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In the mid-1990s, Shenzhen's Konka Group, now a major conglomerate making everything from TVs to mobile phones, was the lone wolf venturing warily into strange and unknown territory.
Authorities described Jose Pimentel as a "lone wolf" who was inspired by al Qaeda propaganda to plot attacks against police officers, patrol cars and troops returning from military service abroad.
The thought that two people are involved also shifts the perspective away from this being the work of a so-called lone wolf and towards it being some kind of conspiracy.
With a name like N9, however, it was obvious which phone we needed to compare Nokia's lone wolf MeeGo handset to, so out came our trusty N8 with its world-beating 12 megapixel sensor.
Levin said one challenge in protecting Obama is that the identity of a potential attacker would likely be unknown -- a person who believes in white supremacist ideology, but decides to act as a lone wolf.
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Because of this contract, VCs are required to stick to this jointly pre-determined plan and are contractually prevented from having even one lone wolf in their portfolio, no matter how sexy that wolf may in fact be.
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Two sections of the Patriot Act the "lone wolf" provision and "roving wiretaps" (both requiring authorization by a special court) were created precisely to identify and monitor an individual like Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he detonates a bomb in a crowded public place.
The U.K. has been the scene of a series of terrorist attacks, ranging from large-scale bombings to so-called lone-wolf style attacks.
Mr. Coons and other police officials want the money restored, noting that so-called lone-wolf attacks are occurring more frequently outside of major urban areas, such as the movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colo.
The U.K. has been the scene of a number of terrorist attacks, ranging from the coordinated suicide bomb attacks in London in 2005 that killed 56 people and injured more than 700 to so-called lone-wolf style attacks.
In fact, the more complicated the world becomes, the more difficult is the invention, the more we need the entrepreneurs, lone-wolf or not, to play with the possibilities in use and combination of these very new inventions.
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For all of our supposed no-nonsense pragmatism, Americans are romantics, and one of the things we love most is the idea of the lone-wolf capitalist: the intrepid, solitary genius who toils in a lab or workshop or office, and suddenly comes up with some startling invention or new way of doing business.
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