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The Braves have dismissed reports of friction between Cox and general manager Frank Wren, though surely there is a small brush-fire to accompany this smoke.
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This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.
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This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.
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This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.
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This also was a characteristic of the neocons who first emerged as important players during the Reagan administration's brush-fire wars in Central America.
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They preferred that the American people still perceive an ascendant and implacable communist enemy, all the better to justify brush-fire wars and higher spending on weapons systems.
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They preferred that the American people still perceive an ascendant and implacable communist enemy, all the better to justify brush-fire wars and higher spending on weapons systems.
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Your an amazing photojournalist and I love your brush-fire photos, it may not have been a huge fire but you sure made it look amazing =
Lumberton brush fire 2008
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Accustomed as Californians have become to the annual brush-fire season, no one in Los Angeles could escape the fact that this year's outbreaks were as bad as any in southern California.
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It had created a dangerous "" missile gap, '' Kennedy argued, and he demanded a large buildup of nuclear weapons and a counter-insurgency force capable of fighting "" brush-fire '' wars in the Third World.
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