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.
Muslims consider some of the images particularly demeaning, including one of Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
In 2006 78 of them came to tear down his wall of pictures, smashed it, trashed it, left it like a bomb site.
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"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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The last was a soft, lush and ripe wine made even more memorable by its packaging (a gray ceramic bottle that one friend said "looked like a bomb that you'd light with a fuse and throw" making perhaps the first unoaked Chardonnay Molotov cocktail).
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The impact of some failed acquisitions for a mid-market company will be like a nuclear bomb, while others will only have the bite of a firecracker.
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However, something that could be made much easier like a dirty bomb, which could still cause considerable destruction, is more of a realistic threat once divided by the probability.
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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More than a decade ago desktop publishing hit professional typesetters like a megaton bomb and made Adobe and Quark rich.
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.
That means that once voices, data or video streams are translated into binary computer code, the system uses available bandwidth with great efficiency, and will effortlessly work around any disruption in the system (like a car bomb).
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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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Those who argued against stopping Iran from getting a bomb were like those who in 1944 refused the Jewish plea to bomb the alleged death factory in Auschwitz.
It was like the aftermath of a bomb, a total mess, with fatalities.
Was it a plutonium bomb, like the ones it tested in 2006 and 2009, or one that used highly enriched uranium?
Before it ceases to exist, however, this guy would like to nuke Israel and lob a bomb or two onto U.S. soil.
Two sections of the Patriot Act the "lone wolf" provision and "roving wiretaps" (both requiring authorization by a special court) were created precisely to identify and monitor an individual like Tamerlan Tsarnaev before he detonates a bomb in a crowded public place.
But even as fascism took hold in Germany in the 1930s, physicists were devising a weapon far more powerful, one that would split the basic elements of matter apart to create a burst of energy and a bomb like nothing known before.
They know that Japan could A-bomb the New Economy in a day if it felt like it.
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