During Election Day, the short fuse is supplanted by congeniality.

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And despite her four-letter outbursts and short fuse, Kelly has got her soft side, and the power ballad is not the only evidence of that on the album.

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However, Munnelly, Billy Sheehan and Conway are playing well, though Sheehan has a short fuse and may find it difficult to get through this seventy minutes of tough derby football.

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In Game Three of the Divisional Series between the Rangers-Rays, you could sense that Joe Maddon and his ball club were working on a short fuse when it came to the umpires.

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Symptoms that nagged Duerson after he retired from the NFL in 1993 were typical of cases such as Webster and Grimsley, including problems with impulse control, an increasingly short fuse and headaches.

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One reason for Mr Jobs's short fuse may be that Apple's relatively skinny research and development budget has to work much harder than those of competitors who benefit from the huge spending of Microsoft and Intel.

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He had a short fuse.

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Specifically came the condition -- with a short-fuse deadline attached -- that Pakistan must be included in any peace talks.

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He could have warned them about how Marvell is a tough place to work, with its up-all-night work habits and short-fuse product development.

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Researchers will participate in a short-fuse, crucible-style environment to invent new approaches to the identification of people, places, things and activities from still or moving defense and open-source imagery.

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