His priorities are alleviating poverty, while trying belatedly to control the explosion in public spending that he has presided over during the past five years.

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Think of nuclear fission: it generates useful energy but if it runs out of control you get a cataclysmic explosion.

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The Fund wants the government to have control over wages, ending the salary explosion.

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And still the talking heads are getting ready for what is the big blockbuster special effect explosion in stories of American gun savagery: the gun control debate.

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