Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...positions track the N.R.A.'s. Trigger locks? "A ludicrous invention. If you can't put it on a weapon without taking the bullets out, why put it on?" A five-day waiting period? "It's hard for me to accept that a guy says, 'I'm going to kill that s.o.b., but, darn, I have this five-day waiting period.' He probably still wants to kill him after five days." Ban Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit...
...furious. The Bryco 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this guy needs 40 guns for self-protection?" asks Young. "The gun industry knows what's going on in the street...
...making cop-killer bullets and guns that fail to indicate they're loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed in the Jonesboro, Ark., school massacre are preparing a lawsuit against a gunmaker for not including a trigger lock. And the mayors of Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities may sue to recover the cost gun crimes add to city budgets...
...Richard Holbrooke last week. "A full-scale Serbian offensive against the KLA will force NATO to take action against the Serbs," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, who last week accompanied Holbrooke on a futile peace mission in the region. "Although the Serbs could easily squash the KLA, that would trigger a bloody civil war throughout the region" -- a war NATO fears would destabilize the region and create a massive refugee problem...
Nonprescription drugs can cause problems too. Antacids, for example, can neutralize certain antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. High doses of vitamin E (over 400 IU) can trigger serious internal bleeding when taken with a blood-thinning agent like Coumadin. Even eating can be tricky. Grapefruit juice intensifies the effects of some high-blood-pressure medications (calcium channel blockers) while aged cheeses, wine and chocolate can turn antidepressants (MAO inhibitors) into poisons. And those are just some of the thousands of cross-reactions that pharmacists know about. New contraindications are added to the list all the time...