Every tipoff, possession, turnover, basket (certainly by the home team) timeout, quarter and halftime, is accompanied by explosivesound effects and crammed with music and entertainment.
WSJ: Basketball Diaries
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This is a politically explosive claim: Americans do not like the sound of rationing.
ECONOMIST: Health-care reform
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Doesn't sound like much, but the settlers planned to destroy them, which would have made for some explosive TV images and left 4, 000 Palestinians without jobs.