These Knicks are supposed to be better, adding Tyson Chandler and having more time to fuse Amar'e Stoudemire to Carmelo Anthony.

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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 connection between the positive battery cable and the fuse box could degrade over time.

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What followed lights-out at the Sleep Disorders Center was, predictably enough, not sleep. (Imagine for a moment going to bed in a fuse box.) Every time I moved, I got tangled in a wire.

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He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.

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Negotiations broke down last Friday, the same day that Time Warner Cable fully dropped MSG's music channel Fuse.

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The first time he fired up his double hot plate, the fuse-box door was open and he witnessed a cerulean flash and a rattail of smoke, the first of four fuses it took to fry one egg.

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