Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...English Midlands, and both pilots were wearing parachutes. They bailed out and were back at work the next day. Only then did the Air Force order parachutes for its T-3s. "It was as if the Air Force held a gun to my son's head and pulled the trigger," Dostal says. "This should have been a safe, learning environment instead of something thought up by some hotdogging general...
Imagine what would happen if they watched The Nanny. Last Tuesday 600 Japanese children were hospitalized after going into convulsions triggered by the optical effects of an episode of POKEMON, a cartoon based on a Nintendo game. Later that night 100 more kids went down after the news showed clips from the program. Flashing lights have long been known to trigger photosensitive epilepsy. In this case the reaction seems to have been brought on by the combination of the graphics, the children's age, and the way many Japanese TV viewers sit really close to giant screens...
...meteorite, a bullet or even a bird. In fact, the safety board still doesn't know the exact source of the spark that presumably ignited Flight 800's mostly empty central fuel tank, a container similar to those sloshing just below passengers' feet in many commercial carriers. But the trigger's precise identity may be disturbingly moot. In a week of technical testimony considerably more alarming than had been expected, safety-board chairman James Hall made it clear that the fuel, transformed from a stable liquid state to volatile vapors by the exhaust heat from air conditioners cooling the plane...
...only does he unfairly exploit this real and sensitive issue as a cheap emotional trigger, but he is so confident with this ruse that he neglects to actually personify the evil at hand. With forced and belabored "filmmaking," he painfully portrays the anguished and horrid plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn...
...forbidding and dangerous than any thermonuclear device, it ought to be allowed to wield that weapon. It must, however, exercise the utmost caution in the use of that weapon so that the rampant tide of current events, the Curleys and Woodwards, does not unduly influence the pulling of the trigger...