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  • Trying to Defuse the tension with levity there, notice that Mamacita?

    How To Defuse (or Diffuse) A Steak & Cheese Grease Bomb | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

  • Since this is entirely a black box exercise anyway and there's nothing else to talk about - it is equally if not more likely that this is a joint leak from Hillary and O. Defuse all the predictable reaction to the eventual announcement before hand. O!'s a wiley fella. .not to mention the Clintons!

    Strategic Leaks Versus Unplanned Leaks 2009

  • China Tries to Defuse Flood Threat Chinese authorities were preparing to run a drill to ensure 1.3 million residents of the Mianyang region could get out quickly if a lake spawned by the May 12 earthquake were to burst through a wall of debris.

    Flat Horizon 2008

  • To Defuse Auction-Rate Case Pushing to put one of the biggest debacles of the credit crisis behind them,

    Citi, Merrill to Pay $17 Billion 2008

  • China Tries to Defuse Flood Threat Chinese authorities were preparing to run a drill to ensure 1.3 million residents of the Mianyang region could get out quickly if a lake spawned by the May 12 earthquake were to burst through a wall of debris.

    Final Primaries 2008

  • Editorial: Defuse the conflict - If there is one thing on which all Palestinian factions agree, it is that Palestinians should not be killing one other, but instead should be killing Israelis - Jerusalem Post

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2007

  • Will Put up More Tommorow, RYAN I am thinking of Putting togther a DATAbase that References Torah, to Verdic, to Bible, To Greek, etc to Help Defuse the Religious time bomb we are being pushed Towards … thoughts anyone?

    Think Progress » Bush Administration Pushes False Propaganda, Condemns It 2005

  • Editorial: Defuse the conflict - If there is one thing on which all Palestinian factions agree, it is that Palestinians should not be killing one other, but instead should be killing Israelis - Jerusalem Post

    Tuesday's comment from the papers in... 2007

  • "Defuse the ticking time-bomb known as your child's imagination before it explodes and destroys her completely," said child-safety expert Kenneth McMillan, who advised the HHS in composing the guidelines.

    Satire: Child-Safety Experts Call For Restrictions On Childhood Imagination William Harryman 2007

  • Editorial: Defuse the conflict - If there is one thing on which all Palestinian factions agree, it is that Palestinians should not be killing one other, but instead should be killing Israelis - Jerusalem Post

    Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG: 2007

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