She's a nightmare wedding guest, a time bomb waiting for the moment of maximum impact.
But there's a paradox buried inside Paul's rise in the Republican field, a time bomb ticking away.
Add the all-important price of oil to the equation and it begins to look like a time bomb.
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Mr. DELAINE: We know we're dealing with a time bomb, of it - of containers rusting away and corroding.
In 2007 Warren Buffett told shareholders that public-sector pension funding was inadequate, and called it a time bomb with a long fuse.
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"Originally created to serve the development of our sport, the Code has mutated into a time bomb that we are wholly unable to contain, " he wrote.
Either Schering deliberately delayed a result it suspected would be bad or Hassan's team incompetently failed to realize that they were sitting on a time bomb.
Clean technology will be expensive, and a country facing a demographic time bomb in a decade or so cannot afford to waste a single percentage point in GDP growth to clean up its environment.
He said he had made a speech in the Commons warning there was a "time bomb ticking away in the heart of the city as a result of the massive levels of unemployment".
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Is it safe to take over another firm or is it a legal time bomb?
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Rodriguez knew the tapes were potentially a ticking time bomb and wanted to destroy them.
But many people are discovering that they unwittingly planted inside their financial plan a tax time bomb.
It scared me and although my numbers (cholesterol etc) were decent, I was a ticking time bomb.
Yemen, as we described in Apogee a year ago, is a demographic time bomb waiting to blow.
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Given the chance, economic growth will prevent a new time bomb--in the form of credit default swaps--from exploding.
And the second one - and it's not in there - is there's a time-bomb in the tax code.
On paper, it appeared to counselors that Marsar was a ticking time bomb.
Eldercare is a ticking time bomb, especially in countries where filial piety is tightly woven into the cultural value system.
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This is why I have called the concussion damage in football and other collision sports a ticking time bomb and undiagnosed health epidemic.
Your precious printer might seem innocuous but, in reality, it could be a ticking time bomb just waiting for some hacker to trigger it.
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Top it all off with a career, a spouse and a social life, and it could make any woman feel like a ticking time bomb.
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It is interesting to talk to Californians about their attitudes to this, because they live here in the clear knowledge that they are sitting on a seismological time bomb.
Thereby both revenues and profits are inflated in the short term, though it leaves a ticking time bomb in the form of the expenditure that has to be accounted for in later years.
When Ken Lay returned to being CEO of Enron in August 2001, he was told in no uncertain terms that Enron was the functional equivalent of a ticking time bomb--the looming losses were that severe.
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