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  • The Backfire is in production and is now entering operational service in limited numbers.

    NORAD: Current Operations and Future Plans 1976

  • I haven't heard of Panic at the Disco, but I have heard the song by The Wombats called Backfire at the Disco.

    Panic at the Disco Jen 2009

  • Call it wishful thinking blurted due to campaign fatigue; a Freudian slip; or, a fabulous example of what you'd have to call The Backfire Effect.

    Carine Fabius: On Being Black in America 2008

  • So that leaves the fellas alone, to talk briskly about Operation Backfire, which is the British program to assemble some A4s and fire them out into the North Sea.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • That's Juma Ssemakula alias Backfire, the self-confessed leader of the Kiboko

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • Someone nicknamed "Backfire," who has been previously identified by the Ugandan press as Juma Semakula, ruled the group.

    Glenna Gordon: Plainclothes Paramilitary Beat Kampala Protesters 2008

  • Two new guides for rubble pickers, George Anders's "Perfect Enough" and Peter Burrows's "Backfire," focus on the last great corporate slugfest of the boom, Hewlett-Packard's takeover of Compaq, which was finally approved by shareholders in 2002.

    Split Decision On A Slugfest 2007

  • Two Russian Su-27 fighter jets were also sent up to join the bombers after the Japanese intercept to ensure that the Russian Tu-22 bombers, known in NATO parlance as "Backfire" bombers, completed their mission as planned, he said.

    UK TOP SECRET Postman Patel 2008

  • Once a year Krulwich hosts a semi-fictional year-in-review called "Backfire," with friends

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2008

  • & Trading Company, Hills Forest Fruit Farm, Hope Ridge Farm, Nick's "Backfire" Brands

    Blog updates 2010

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