And after untangling the Marine's equipment, he extinguished the flames and pulled him to safety.

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Untangling work and wider factors in the possible causes of breast cancer is an important global issue.

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The idea first struck Ms. Dewey-Hagborg while she was sitting on her therapist's couch, supposedly untangling her own life.

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If all this sounds less than clean, that is because untangling long strands of spaghetti can be horribly complicated.

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President Clinton, for example, spent the first half of his term untangling himself from unworkable foreign-policy positions adopted by Candidate Clinton.

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But even if the IRS bombs the annuity trust into oblivion, there's still work for the middlemen: untangling existing tax shelters.

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Untangling the amount of government money involved at every level is a daunting task, but what we have here will suffice for our purposes.

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The major task of this two-week conference has been untangling of the diplomatic spaghetti from climate agreements that have grown piecemeal over the past 15 years.

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Untangling complex statutes is thus a perilous business.

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In an accompanying commentary, Prof Ian Small from the University of Western Australia - who was not involved in the research - said the vast variations between the genetic data of angiosperms gleaned from mitochondrial genome sequencing made " untangling their evolutionary histories difficult".

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