Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobody seems to know what NATO will do either -- except everything it can to avoid pulling the trigger. The U.S. military certainly has grave doubts about the mission. "Pentagon officials aren't sure that air strikes can change Milosevic's behavior," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "We're threatening to break a lot of his stuff, but what do we do if he decides to tough it out? The problem is that right now, Milosevic holds all the cards." Soon, he might even have to show them...
...ages of their kids. Along with mangled fetuses and dripping blood, it boasted a handy checklist of "baby butchers" who were healthy (in black), as well as those who had been wounded (in gray) or killed (crossed out). It didn't quite make the case for pulling the trigger, but it pointed the way to sites that did. In 1995 Planned Parenthood and several targeted doctors sued the site's backers, charging that it illegally incited violence. Last week a Portland, Ore., jury agreed, handing the plaintiffs a $107 million verdict that the pro-choice movement hailed...
After a four-goal, second period deluge by the Crimson women, the goal judge developed an itchy trigger finger. During a third-period power play, sophomore right wing Tammy Shewchuk fired a shot on goal that startled a goal judge into lighting the lamp just as it left her stick. The shot never actually went in. Shewchuk finished with one goal and four assists. The erroneous signal proved only to be a grim reminder of the Crimson's dominance in the final round of the Beanpot...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...
...combined defense arguments were compelling enough to trigger some quick shifting of strategy on both sides of the aisle. The clever Democratic ploy of enlisting West Virginia's Robert Byrd to offer a motion to dismiss "was a bombshell," as a Republican Senator put it. Any list of possible Democratic defectors always had Byrd's name at the top. "If Byrd is now offering a vote to dismiss, conviction really is dead...