Some senior commission officials fret about a ticking time-bomb of populism, waiting to be triggered by special-interest groups.
And the second one - and it's not in there - is there's a time-bomb in the tax code.
"It's the major problem--a sort of time-bomb for Uruguay, " says Dr. Martha Pelaez , a regional adviser on aging and health at PAHO.
Later, a former White House physician, Connie Mariano, said she worried his weight made him a "time-bomb" at risk of dying in office.
But now the hospital has The FibroScan, an ultrasound probe to diagnose what Dr Wright describes as the "ticking time-bomb" of liver damage.
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As one time-bomb is rendered harmless, however, another ticks ever louder.
When she stood 14 years ago one commentator described the candidate originally from north Belfast as "a tribal time-bomb" - he has since changed his view.
But the biggest time-bomb hidden in Japanese accounts is the horrifying amount of unfunded pension obligations that have been piling up and now threaten to topple many firms.
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.
The reason that Britain's public finances do not face a pensions time-bomb is that, since the early 1980s, the Tories have been reducing the role of the state in pension provision and increasing that of the private sector.
Economic growth will help prevent another financial time bomb--credit default swaps, a form of debt insurance--from exploding.
Given the chance, economic growth will prevent a new time bomb--in the form of credit default swaps--from exploding.
When Ken Lay returned to being CEO of Enron in August 2001, he was told in no uncertain terms that Enron was the functional equivalent of a ticking time bomb--the looming losses were that severe.
Rics says neglecting to commission a survey creates a "home-buying time bomb".
In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency, described as a food watchdog, wants to defuse the so-called obesity time bomb and is considering such methods as a ban on TV advertising aimed at children, health warnings on foods high in salt, sugar and fat, and requiring school vending machines to offer healthy alternatives, according to press reports.
Mr. DELAINE: We know we're dealing with a time bomb, of it - of containers rusting away and corroding.
First, the Economist magazine ran a much-publicised supplement warning of a "time bomb" unless France reformed fast, and now Moody's has downgraded French debt from its triple-A rating, citing the country's lack of growth and loss of competitiveness.
This time the culprit was a Russian-made aerial bomb weighing in at 100 kilograms (220 pounds), unearthed just two meters away from a train track leading into the city's main train station.
The subpoenas covered a two-month period around the time AP wrote the story about an alleged conspiracy to detonate an underwear bomb aboard a U.S.-bound airliner.
In 2003 Hansen wrote a widely distributed (but not peer reviewed) paper called Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb? in which he argues that human-caused forcings on the climate are now greater than the natural ones, and that this, over a long time period, can cause large climate changes.
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Last year's subprime-fueled gridlock in the credit markets even spread to high-quality debt, however, as investors realized that the re-packaging and re-distribution of risky loans could signify a ticking time bomb in all corners of credit.
In 2007 Warren Buffett told shareholders that public-sector pension funding was inadequate, and called it a time bomb with a long fuse.
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The excessively low interest rates, unsustainable growth and massive leveraging over the last 30 years created a ticking time bomb that was set off in 2008 by the bundling and 30-1 leveraging of subprime mortgages.
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He compared them with Barringer, and later with the collapsed holes above underground nuclear-bomb tests (where he had been sent prospecting again, this time for plutonium).
The latest edition of the Economist magazine dubbed France "the time bomb at the heart of Europe", claiming it had an under-competitive economy and over-dependence on government spending.
As far as the stakeholders are concerned, every goof-up can cost the retailer a bomb and the fraudster, possible jail time.
Add the all-important price of oil to the equation and it begins to look like a time bomb.
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