Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have any chemical predisposition to bedepressed, Harvard will trigger depression becausethis is a crazy place," she says...
...have any chemical predisposition to bedepressed, Harvard will trigger depression becausethis is a crazy place," she says...
...will future editions assess his eight years in office? He is already so sensitive to the question and what it implies, aides say, that the mere sight of the word legacy in print is enough to trigger an eruption of the famous Clinton temper. He knows well that, as historian Michael Beschloss notes, "most Presidents are really not in the heroic mode." To be one of the greats requires surmounting a crisis on the scale of the Civil War or the Great Depression, or having ideas strong enough to change the way an entire nation thinks...
...piece of Korea's foreign debt, and none held more than Japanese banks, which, by the standards of U.S. bank examiners, are themselves in varying states of insolvency. It didn't take much imagination to see how the dominoes might fall. A default in Korea would almost certainly trigger a massive banking crisis in Japan. U.S. banks would get swept into the mess not just because of their loan exposure to Asia but also as a result of the trillions of dollars in interest-rate and currency swaps, hedging contracts and other derivative deals that link American financial institutions...
...public art ever--a 180-ft.-high mosaic of colored glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about it? The mosaic reacts to human contact, emitting sounds of the Everglades. Janney's "performance architecture" has also been played in the New York City and Paris subways, where passengers trigger infrared sensors to set off synthesized bells, flutes and bird whistles. His latest work is more passive than interactive: he's designing a Hawaiian home that is also a sundial...