Confidence dropped like a bomb in the fourth quarter of 2000 and now sits at 1990 levels.
The Deauville pact struck by Ms. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy hit Luxembourg like a bomb.
"It will be like a bomb under our programme, " English badminton performance director Finn Traerup said at the time.
"It was like a bomb went off, " said Barry Murry, a resident who lives about a mile away from the plant.
Up the street, at the hotel where most of the strongmen were staying, the breakfast buffet was provisioned like a bomb shelter.
"It had pulled in - starting to pull in - and what it did was it hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb, " Dee Wertz told the network.
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You can't have a "runaway reactor, " nor can a reactor explode like a nuclear bomb.
Add the all-important price of oil to the equation and it begins to look like a time bomb.
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Under the microscope "it looks like a small bomb went off in the nucleus, " says George Demetri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Rob Howell's set, which looks like he lobbed a bomb into a Scrabble factory, is suitably fantastic.
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 looks like somebody just went through there and just dropped a bomb on the place, " Shannon McCostlin told affiliate WATE-TV.
Like most of Western Europe, before the reform Poland was facing a fiscal time-bomb, with the number of active workers for each pensioner expected to fall from four to three by 2020.
It's like the cartoon, right, you're sort of standing there and somebody hands you a ticking time bomb and it explodes, and you've got all this gunpowder on your hands, and you didn't construct the bomb, but you're holding it.
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Like its US ally, Israel has consistently refused to rule out a military option to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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