Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BLACKOUTS Viagra can trigger sudden drops in blood pressure, and there is a risk that men who take it in combination with nitroglycerin or other antihypertensive drugs could faint or go into shock...
...knew about finance, but maybe not what we know about economics. Will a high-speed global economy put an end to the boom and bust of the business cycle, or will it create dangerous interlinkages across borders, where a bad year for the Mexican economy, say, might accidentally trigger a global depression...
...didn't take long for the backlash to begin. Breast-cancer support groups weighed in almost at once. Why, they asked, would an otherwise healthy woman want to take a drug that can cause birth defects, trigger blood clots and double her chance of getting cancer of the uterus? Some questioned the drug's value even for the 29 million American women whose chances of getting breast cancer are, like Helene Wilson's, significantly higher than the 1-in-9 national average. Tamoxifen is already approved as a breast-cancer treatment, so physicians can prescribe it for prevention as well...
...talks trigger-itching assailants into putting away their guns and going home to their families. He sits beside wounded gangsters who hope to die and persuades them to live. And he insists that there is nothing special about him or his accomplishments. "I'm an ordinary man on an extraordinary mission," he says...
...calls it an epidemic. ?If the United States had eight times the rate of disease than other rich nations, the people would be up in arms,? said Dr. Rebecca Peters of Johns Hopkins University. ?This would be a public health emergency.? Whether the guns or the people pulling the trigger are responsible, one thing is clear: We?ve got a whole lot of killing going...