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On Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans applauded this week's summit meeting as a welcome first step in defusing one of the world's most dangerous hot spots, but warned against dropping America's guard against North Korea.

But the court did please critics of the program in finding that the government's "cascade" of public statements had made the program anything but a secret, defusing one of the administration's main arguments for throwing all such lawsuits out of court.

The news came just days after China said it would allow greater flexibility in the value of its currency, defusing one of the greatest sources of tension between Beijing and Washington.

Colonel Ahmad Ashmawi was killed early on Monday morning as he attempted to defuse one of five bombs discovered outside the presidential palace.

The pledge, to be announced at the annual meeting of international lending agencies in Prague next week, is intended to defuse one of the most potent arguments of the antiglobalization protesters who have disrupted nearly every recent gathering of finance and trade ministers: In times of previously unknown wealth, many of the poorest nations have become increasingly indebted to the rich.

It was unclear whether Zimbabwe's neighbors — many of them with political or fraternal bonds to Zimbabwe's 84-year-old autocratic president, the liberation hero Robert Mugabe — could or would do much to defuse one of the most ominous political crises since Zimbabwe waged a regional civil war some 25 years ago.

Salary.com is in the business of advising other companies about avoiding compensation time bombs, but it finds itself trying to defuse one of its own: it is locked in a civil suit with a former director, David Nunes, over whether he owns 300,000 stock options or 3 million.

If there's anything that gives my cynicism pause, it's the possibility of divergent efforts like these amplifying rather than defusing one another.

Mr. Hatoyama has defused one major source of tension by saying he would not visit the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo while convicted Japanese war criminals were honored there.

Russian troops had examined the car for explosives and found and defused one in the trunk.

The tensions were defused at one of Redfin's all-employee meetings about seven years ago, when a group of engineers donned T-shirts that said, "I love agents," according to Bridget Frey, Redfin's chief technology officer.