The friction caused by the gas bubble pushing up the pipe and displacing the drilling mud used to control the pressure could have created a static charge that ignited the gas into a fireball.

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Now that Republicans control both the Treasury Department and Congress, they should scrap so-called static analysis and substitute "dynamic" analysis, which bears some resemblance to the real world.

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Three minutes later Villa raced through a static dark blue defence to collect a visionary chip by the elegant Xabi Alonso but uncharacteristically failed to control the ball with only the keeper to beat.

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More than two-thirds of the European and American firms surveyed recently by Control Risks felt that Russia was becoming riskier for business whereas most respondents saw risk to be static or dimishing in India, China and Brazil.

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