Paradoxically, the government's strict control over the official media combined with underground channels for information of dubious origins can prove to be a combustible mixture.

WSJ: The Urumqi Effect

Trained as a chemist, Price looked for companies with a certain combustible mixture: strong growth records, talented managers, new technologies and no cutthroat competition or troublesome unions.

FORBES: Price Is Right

For two months, Orszag, Nabors, Geithner, Summers, Jason Furman, Melody Barnes, Austan Goolsbee, and several others worked within inches of one other a combustible mixture of personalities and economic philosophies.

NEWYORKER: Money Talks

People share overly personal information and make fools of themselves on the web every day, but the impulsiveness of teenagers plus the visibility of Huffpo could be a uniquely combustible mixture.

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