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  • Anyone care to walk through this field of land-mines?

    MIND MELD: How Do Media Tie-In Novels Affect SF/F? 2008

  • Alex@318: yes, the terrain all around here is strewn with land-mines or cluster-bombs or something of the sort.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • Plenty of people anticipated the difficulty and the land-mines inherent in a counterinsurgency strategy supported by a large U.S. troop increase.

    Robert Greenwald: Panetta Shrugs Like Rumsfeld 2010

  • Plenty of people anticipated the difficulty and the land-mines inherent in a counterinsurgency strategy supported by a large U.S. troop increase.

    Robert Greenwald: Panetta Shrugs Like Rumsfeld 2010

  • Even if you remember to spit out your gum and offer a firm and confident handshake, there is a myriad of conversational land-mines which must be avoided.

    8 Things You Shouldn't Say In A Job Interview - The Consumerist 2008

  • In the weeks since passage of this 2,700 page bill, more and more of its policy land-mines have exploded, including rising insurance premiums and admissions of inevitable rationing.

    Why the AMA Wants to Muzzle Your Doctor Hal Scherz 2010

  • The legislation that Obama and Lugar worked on together (Lugar-Obama) is an expansion of Nunn-Lugar, which adds conventional weapons (land-mines, shoulder-fired missiles, unsecured stockpiles of artillery and ammunition, etc.) to the list of "arms" which we're seeking to "non-proliferate."

    Nunn And Boren Back Obama 2009

  • Harper is not only lying, he is quite prepared to watch Canadian troops roll back and forth on roads over land-mines and IEDs rather than buy used helicopters to prevent them being killed - right now.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008

  • Bush is out there today setting land-mines for the next administration and taking credit for making a decision that supposedly hurts both parties.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Other conspiracy theories involve her campaigning against land-mines and the arms companies having her bumped off.

    Buzzine » Diana Inquest Almost Done 2008

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