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  • The Braves have dismissed reports of friction between Cox and general manager Frank Wren, though surely there is a small brush-fire to accompany this smoke.

    One more year: good plan for Braves, Cox - sports 2009

  • This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.

    Printing: Elliott Abrams and 'Neocon-ing' Obama 2009

  • This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.

    Elliott Abrams and 'Neocon-ing' Obama 2009

  • This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.

    Printing: Obama Pleases the Neocons 2009

  • This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.

    Obama Pleases the Neocons 2009

  • They preferred that the American people still perceive an ascendant and implacable communist enemy, all the better to justify brush-fire wars and higher spending on weapons systems.

    Losing the War for Reality 2008

  • They preferred that the American people still perceive an ascendant and implacable communist enemy, all the better to justify brush-fire wars and higher spending on weapons systems.

    Printing: Losing the War for Reality 2008

  • Your an amazing photojournalist and I love your brush-fire photos, it may not have been a huge fire but you sure made it look amazing =

    Lumberton brush fire 2008

  • Accustomed as Californians have become to the annual brush-fire season, no one in Los Angeles could escape the fact that this year's outbreaks were as bad as any in southern California.

    Earth, Wind And Wildfire 2008

  • It had created a dangerous "" missile gap, '' Kennedy argued, and he demanded a large buildup of nuclear weapons and a counter-insurgency force capable of fighting "" brush-fire '' wars in the Third World.

    The Price Of Cheap Shots 2008

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