• Which seems to me to be a design flaw on par with Klingon and Romulan ships not being able to fire their weapons while cloaked.

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  • Customers will not have to fire off their real credit-card number into insecure cyberspace and will have a guarantee of their money back in the event of disappointment.

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  • Whereas the ships apparently demonstrated their readiness to engage, in their decision not to open fire on the Iranian boats, they signaled clearly that the US is unwilling to actually fight Iran.

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  • Blackberry handset users will not be able to link between their handsets and the Fire because RIM, at least for now, does not support portable hotspot software.

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  • But the fire brigade said services will not be stretched because fire engines spend around 7% of their time at emergency incidents.

    BBC: London fire cuts could 'affect ability to respond'

  • In the years since the Bell Rocket Belt, many have pursued the goal of a practical, wearable flying device, and not a few have set their pants on fire.

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  • Los Angeles (CNN) -- In the final two hours of a dramatic standoff with rogue ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies did not fire a single gunshot during their raid of a compound where he barricaded himself after killing one deputy and seriously wounding another, according to dispatch logs.

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  • They did not respond in specific detail but say their forces had come under fire in the area around one of the family's houses.

    BBC: Panorama - Gaza: Out of the Ruins

  • But the young side will take heart from a solid, if not inspiring, performance against their hosts who could see under-fire coach Berti Vogts sacked following the defeat.

    BBC: Azerbaijan 0-1 Wales

  • The Sunnis fighting on America's side today could direct their fire back towards the Americans and Shias tomorrow if not enough room is made for them in the new, Shia-dominated order.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • Second Lieutenant TAYLOR PRINCE (U.S. Marine Corps.): Believe it or not, some of their senior officers, they come out here and fire their own, the AKM's in their hole net and it's all over the place, hitting five, ten feet in front.

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  • "We certainly hope that Accomack County can now return to the community that it once knew and probably wants to return to -- a tranquil, rural community where people can relax and not be afraid of ... losing their property or having a fire occur, " the spokeswoman said.

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  • Given the road-bound nature of our forces, they will not be able to reach beyond the first range of hills with their direct-fire weapons.

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  • Officers said their investigations were at an early stage and it was not yet known whether the fire was started deliberately.

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  • Navy gunners had just a 10-second window to fire, and officials had said they might not be able to take their shot on the first opportunity.

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  • There is no smoke without fire, though: their abject defeat in the tournament final may not have been in doubt, but a question mark was placed next to the loss to India at old Trafford.

    BBC: Pakistan's continual crisis

  • The critics claim that the proposals would not only cost many middle-class families their homes, but would also lead to a fire-sale of the country's assets and massive additional job cuts.

    ECONOMIST: Thailand

  • But in this case, it's actually pretty apt: The group combines the messier impulses of punk, psychedelia, '60s rock and '90s Britpop, complete with a carefully cultivated reputation for unruliness which includes (but has not been limited to) urinating on each other, vomiting onstage and setting their instruments on fire.

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  • Earlier, he made clear that thought his unions viewed plans to train troops to use red fire engines as "desperate measures", firefighters would not block them from crossing their picket lines.

    BBC: Scent of possible compromise

  • Since then, the BBC has found itself under almost constant fire, not least in the newspapers which now compete with it, as they extend their businesses onto the internet.

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  • Some employers say there might not be enough qualified disabled workers in their fields to meet that target and that they may have to fire nondisabled workers to achieve the ratio.

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  • People who shop at Amazon do not, after all, have to worry about installing, upgrading or maintaining anything: they just fire up their browsers, and it works.

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  • It is difficult for management to admit their mistakes (they are human, and we are not good at that), and for the board to fire current management while the company is increasing its revenues and earnings.

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