Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon sent a letter to HLS last fall claiming HLS policies should trigger a funding loss under the Solomon amendment, but after explaining its policy to the Defense Department, HLS was let off the hook, Donahue said...
...Pentagon sent a letter to HLS last fall claiming HLS policies should trigger a funding loss under the Solomon Amendment, but after explaining its policy to the Defense Department, HLS was let off the hook, Donahue said...
...Frequent upper-respiratory infections--colds, strep throat, middle-ear and sinus infections--may be a sign of undiagnosed allergy. One of the ways the body responds to the tiny particles that trigger allergies is by producing mucus, which turns out to be a terrific medium for trapping and growing viruses and bacteria. Getting rid of the mucus, which means identifying and treating the allergy, makes it much less likely that you will catch those germs in the first place. As a general rule, infants who suffer more than six upper-respiratory infections a year, and school-age children and adults...
...falling out of his canoe last summer can, if convicted, face a $100 fine and up to 90 days behind bars. Revolutionary War re-enactors in Massachusetts may also face serious gaol time. A state law banning assault weapons calls for the arrest of owners who don't have trigger guards on their firearm. It doesn't matter whether it is a deadly AK-47 or an old flintlock. How on earth did the National Rifle Association let that one get past them...
...countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened the rope of their relationship a bit"---and thus given themselves, and the rest of the world, more time...