Word: triggered
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Prices, too, are still going up. They edged up another .01% in May, to reach a new high of 126.3 (1947-49=100). These higher prices in turn will trigger an automatic pay increase of 1? to 2? per hr. for 200,000 workers, mostly in the aircraft and meat-packing industries...
...conviction was based on the flimsiest of evidence, centering around the testimony of Dr. Charles E. Black, a state-retained Lansing pathologist, who testified that Mrs. Pecho could not possibly have held the weapon, a 20-gauge shotgun, against her chest and been able to reach the trigger. Reporter Robinson also discovered that some evidence strongly implying Pecho's innocence had not even been introduced at the trial...
Robinson's story in the Free Press touched off an official reinvestigation of the Pecho case, and a reconstruction of Mrs. Pecho's death proved that she could easily have pulled the trigger herself. In the light of this and other compelling evidence of Pecho's innocence, Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams granted...
Common Cause.The right-to-spy proposition had its domestic critics from the beginning. Adlai Stevenson recognized the need for intelligence but asked: "Is it possible that we. the United States . . . could do the very thing we dread: carelessly, accidentally trigger the holocaust?" Columnist Walter Lippmann kept up a running battle from the legal flank: "To avow that we intend to violate Soviet sovereignty is to put everybody on the spot . . . The avowal is an open invitation to the Soviet government to take the case to the United Nations, where our best friends will be grievously embarrassed...
...Trigger for the students' revolt was Menderes' latest move: a bill granting almost dictatorial powers to a special commission (TIME, May 2) designed to investigate the "subversive, illegitimate" activities of the Republican opposition party. Gathering round a statue of the late great Ataturk at the university gate, 1.500 students at Istanbul University began shouting "Hurriyet!" ("Freedom"'), and singing Ataturk's famed song of victory...