Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation where either side, thinking its forces may be under attack, would launch on warning," says a Clinton aide. And without satellites to spot the other side's preparations, "the warning is not going to be all that dependable." In the old cold war parlance, it's a hair-trigger situation, in which miscalculation could easily lead to a nuclear exchange...
...notorious sedative thalidomide--Folkman found one compound after another that exhibited anti-angiogenic properties. But none of them was as effective as he wanted it to be. Then he remembered something that surgeons had often observed: that taking out one big tumor from a patient seems to trigger the growth of lots of smaller ones. Could it be that tumors secrete a substance that inhibits the growth of rival tumors' blood vessels...
...want the whole skinny on the depth of Faye Yager's rage? The second husband was a nut job too. A monster. He held a gun to her neck, threatened her, played with her, and when she finally told him to go to hell, he pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head...
...pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway he has commandeered. Pulling off his burning pants, he picks up a shotgun, places its butt against a wall, bends his head to the barrel and pulls the trigger. Live from L.A. The dog dies...
...SKINNY New insight into scleroderma, a puzzling and life-threatening skin disease: a study suggests fetal cells that linger in the mother after she gives birth may somehow trigger the disease...