Iran is a case in point, a literally ticking time-bomb that we ignore at our peril.
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.
The time-bomb is ticking, he says, and the longer ignorance and bigotry are allowed to prevail, the greater the human costs will be.
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.
Noting that the US is on course to reach its debt ceiling next month, after which the "austerity time-bomb" will begin ticking again, Germany's Der Spiegel in English says that "we are... witnessing a superpower losing its way in a maze of details, propelled forward by grandstanding politicians".
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.
In fact the high figure's 68 per cent here, 58 per cent approve the Budget basically, but only 20 per cent - and this is the ticking time bomb I suppose - only 20 per cent think what you're doing will work.
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Rics says neglecting to commission a survey creates a "home-buying time bomb".
"We consider the informal lending market the most likely short-term time bomb for the Chinese economy, " Dong Tao, Asia economist at Credit Suisse, said in a recent report.
He then faces four years and 20 days of a presidency marked by his ownership of a faltering economy, a spiraling debt problem, automatic sequester cuts, no prospect of further spending or tax revenue, and a debt-ceiling 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.
Indeed, even before any new influx of Arabs into Israel occurs, the Jewish State is increasingly facing a "time bomb" of its own -- an armed and dangerous Palestinian nation emerging in its midst and the prospect of a fifth column formed from Arab citizens of Israel.
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.
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