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Flash Point: - The lowest temperature at which evaporation of a substance produces sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air.
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Obama Has Advantage Among Working Poor  -  04 Aug 2008
CBS News,International trade -- and its impact on increasingly scarce jobs -- is another issue that may prove a flash point for workers in the fall campaign.

Bells Toll for Reporters â€“ But What About Zell?  -  04 Aug 2008
San Fernando Valley Business Journal Online (subscription),The flash point for anger at the state of the Times centers on Sam Zell, the foul-mouthed, white-bearded real estate mogul who bought Tribune Co. and put it

Kenyan students' frustration over schools hits a flash point  -  Aug 2, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune,A wave of riots, strikes and arson attacks has closed about 250 high schools in the East African nation in the past month, and scores of teenagers have been

Iowa town become flash point in immigration debate  -  Jul 28, 2008
The Associated PressPOSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) â€” As the chants of 1000 or so people roared near the center of town, Dave Hartley stood on the periphery wearing a look of wonder and

Driving is flash point at national seashore  -  Jul 30, 2008
News & Observer,The television that angler Frank Folb usually keeps tuned to the weather in his Avon tackle shop had a more mundane show playing Wednesday afternoon: a

Candidates back off on race  -  Aug 2, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,...was engaged in "low road" politics, an indication that race is likely to remain a major flash point in what is becoming an increasingly bitter contest.

TNK-BP Players Eye Management Shuffle  -  Aug 3, 2008
The Moscow Times,Dudley has been a flash point in the conflict and is accused by AAR of managing the company in BP's interests. On Thursday, the State Labor Inspectorate

FCC orders Comcast to modify network management  -  Aug 1, 2008
ReutersThe case has become a flash point for a growing debate over a concept known as "network neutrality," which pits open-Internet advocates against some

From Brussels to Beijing  -  Jul 30, 2008
Wall Street JournalEurope and Japan on the other over lax or protectionist Chinese enforcement of IP rights -- make this provision a likely flash point for disputes.

Gus Won't Blame Bad Boys For Crocks  -  Aug 2, 2008
Glasgow Sunday Mail,The late flash point came after a tangle in the home defence that saw White react to a tackle from Mason by butting the midfielder with the Darlo man subbed

Slim majority supports offshore drilling  -  Jul 31, 2008
San Jose Mercury News,Oil drilling has been a flash point in the presidential campaign. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain, seeking ways to cut into Democrat Barack

NEC has new POS terminal  -  Jul 30, 2008
Malaysia Star,INTERNET, broadband network and enterprise business solutions provider NEC Corp Malaysia has launched a new compact touchscreen Point-of-Sales terminal

Surge over, Bush cites Iraq 'durability'  -  Aug 1, 2008
Chicago Tribune,A suicide bombing in Kirkuk, also Monday, pointed to another potential flash point that could plunge the country into renewed instability.

Re-emergence of gray wolves no cause for high hysteria  -  Jul 31, 2008
Seattle Times,...through a fund from the group Defenders of Wildlife, which recently extended it to Washington), became a flash point in a larger cultural war.

Somali gunmen kill peace activist in flash-point town; fourth ...  -  Jul 9, 2008
Charleston Gazette,...peace activist Wednesday, residents said, sparking angry demonstrations in a northern town that is a flash point between two of Somalia's largest clans.

Farrow's Darfur Olympics & Our Olympic Shame  -  Aug 2, 2008
Huffington Post,...like Beijing has been a flash point for Tibet supporters" and that Canadians ought to be "'outraged' by abysmal native conditions in their own country".

Sebastian, Crawford, Polk County Judges Issue Burn Bans  -  Jul 29, 2008
Fort Smith Times Record,In a news release, Hudson said lawns, fields and wooded areas are exceptionally dry, and the flash point for outdoor fires is low. Compounding the low-flash

Black Kids Giddily Rage Against the Hype Machine  -  Jul 29, 2008
Village Voice,Of course, this is not Black Kids' mo They have instead become an unwitting flash point for blog hype, riding the ups and downs of New York magazine's

Quality care fine legacy for Rothman  -  Aug 3, 2008
Cherry Hill Courier Post,He went into practice at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1970, a flash-point year for joint replacement. Plastic had revolutionized orthopedic surgery and made it

Obama's John Lennon-like fantasy  -  Jul 28, 2008
WorldNetDaily,If anything, Berlin was the flash point of East-West tension and therefore could have triggered a war. Obama: "People of the world â€“ look at Berlin!

Â» HBO stays course, CBS surprises  -  Jul 10, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,Enrico Colantoni and Hugh Dillon are members of a crack SWAT team in CBS' new "Flash point." By Ted Cox | Daily Herald Columnist Two new action-packed

Latest Report 'China Ethylene Glycol Market Report, 2008-2009 ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
MarketWatchIts specific gravity is 1.1132, boiling point is 197.2(degree), freezing point is -12.6(degree), flash point is 116(degree), spontaneous ignition point is

Showdown over a Texas execution  -  Jul 30, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,It is a flash point in an ongoing rivalry pitting American law against international law, and the controversy is playing out in an emotional case involving

Emergency officials had concerns about resin's flashpoint  -  Jul 11, 2008
Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald,One of the concerns in the spill of a laminating resin along US Highway 158 was the flash point of the substance, area emergency management coordinators

Introducing the Research Report of the Chinese 1,4-BDO Market ...  -  Jul 21, 2008
MarketWatchIts boiling point is 2350 degree, the melting point is 20.10 degrees, the open cup flash point is 1210 degrees, the specific gravity(d -420)is 1.0171 and

Bush holds out hope for more troop cutbacks in Iraq by end of year  -  Jul 31, 2008
New York Daily News,Nouri al-Maliki have agreed to a "general time horizon" for pulling out US troops. The US occupation has become a huge flash point in the presidential race.

Energy debate reflects partisan gridlock  -  Jul 30, 2008
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com,The problem has become a flash point this election year, with the two major parties polarized over whether to remove a long-held congressional ban on

Our view: Sea Cruise: A compromise waiting to happen  -  Aug 2, 2008
Daily Triplicate,At first glance, it doesn't seem like the club and City Hall are very far apart on the flash-point issue. The club is upset over a new city requirement that

Mail Sacked  -  Jul 29, 2008
Sherdog.comYen, on the other hand (if you watch â€œFlash Pointâ€?), appears to understand some of the basics to submissions and their defense, although it is very

India-Pakistan dialogue at its lowest ebb in last 4 years: India  -  Aug 1, 2008
Thaindian.com,Recent attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul on July 7 is proving to be the flash point between the two neighbours. India has blamed Pakistani intelligence

Hells Angels rolling our way  -  Jul 28, 2008
The Missoulian,...â€œWith that said, because of the Testicle Festival, the potential for a significant flash point to occur in the county this year is as great or greater as it

Canada says NATO must do more in southern Afghanistan  -  Jul 30, 2008
EcoDiario.es,..."Southern Afghanistan is the flash point in this mission.It's the most vulnerable, the most volatile part of the country... we're not going to let up or

MILITARY: General says victory 'all but won' in Anbar  -  Aug 1, 2008
North County Times - Californian,...telephone interview with the North County Times from his headquarters in the city of Fallujah, once a flash point in the battle against the insurgency.

Hoping to breathe fire into dragon with two tongues  -  Jul 29, 2008
WalesOnline,In Westminster politics this portfolio has been called the â€œMinistry of Funâ€?, but in the Assembly it is a flash point for controversy and dilemma.

Western oil shale becomes issue in La. Senate race  -  Aug 1, 2008
Tri Parish Times,By MELINDA DESLATTE A supply of oil sealed in rock out West is becoming a flash-point in Louisiana's US Senate race, in a bid to gain the attention of

Kerala law panel to propose two-child norm  -  Aug 1, 2008
IBNLive.com,...but with the church already having expressed its reservations, this issue might well become the new flash point between the church and the government

US troops have Iran in their sights  -  Jul 29, 2008
Socialistworker.co.uk,But with tens of thousands of US soldiers setting up camp along the border, it is set to become a major flash point. According to Newsweek magazine troops,

Utah Jazz: Top brass mulling over what to do with Miles  -  Jul 21, 2008
Deseret News,The Jazz also lost Revue/Flash point guard Kevin Kruger to a sprained left ankle in Monday's game. The Jazz had no timetable for either's return.

FCC to uphold network complaint vs Comcast-source  -  Jul 28, 2008
guardian.co.uk,The complaint against Comcast has become a flash point for a growing debate between open-Internet advocates who are pushing a concept known as "network

Chinese Banks: Buy Now, Sell Later?  -  Jul 14, 2008
Wall Street JournalChina's stock market is another flash point. Chinese investors who used to take money out of banks for share investing are once again squirreling money away

Due out in paperback: Obama's 'The Audacity of Hope' and McCain's ...  -  Jul 13, 2008
Los Angeles Times,A key flash point of those policies has been the growing Muslim population in western countries, and two new books probe the experiences of youths: "Muslim

To Markets: We Care  -  Jul 14, 2008
Wall Street JournalWomen's Wear Daily: A key battle between the retail industry and eBay, the biggest online marketplace, appears to be near a flash point, and should luxury

Internet & Technology  -  Jul 14, 2008
Investor's Business Daily (subscription)BY PETE BARLAS The ongoing saga among activist investor Carl Icahn, Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) hit another flash point on Monday, two days after the

Fed, Treasury Look to Calm Markets Over Fannie, Freddie  -  Jul 13, 2008
Housing Wire...up to be the flash point for any policy decisions around both GSEs; such debt auctions, used to replace short-term funding lines that are maturing,

Intrigues as Senate Moves to Reshuffle Standing Committees  -  Jul 24, 2008
This Day,...reasons to truncate Markâ€™s presidency of the Senate and the tension/aggravation over committee reshuffling or reconstitution is a potential flash point.

A Turkish theater for World War III*  -  Jul 24, 2008
Asia Times Online,...with the feudal Saudi clan, represents the key flash point here, a particular grievance given the largely Sunni nature of Turkey's Muslim population.

Laguna Beach buys dayworker site from Caltrans  -  Jul 24, 2008
Los Angeles Times,The California Transportation Commission approved the $18000 sale of the parcel, which has been a flash point in the region's illegal immigration debate.

Excursions, Paths and Light  -  Jul 21, 2008
Filter Magazine,Hip-hop was standing at a flash point, and A Tribe Called Quest brought the matchbook. By virtue of being itself, the group took advantage of its moment in

West Bengal lacks forest management blueprint  -  Jul 23, 2008
Economic Times,In south West Bengal districts, the man-elephant conflict reached a flash-point after two tuskers went on rampage at Nayagram in West Midnapore and another

Flashpoint earns promotion to Thursday nights  -  Jul 23, 2008
Toronto Star,Ratings appear to have reached a flash point for the TV drama of the same name, prompting the Canadian and American networks that co-produce it to give it a

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