Word: triggered
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...Kabul. He knows the number of additional troops he may request needs to be as small as possible. That's why he has ordered his subordinates to look into whether some troops that are performing administrative or logistical tasks - perhaps as many as 10,000 - could be replaced with trigger pullers. That would give McChrystal more firepower without boosting troop levels. And the Army is expected to issue contracts before year's end to private firms to guard 50 or more U.S. bases in Afghanistan and the convoys that supply them, work currently being done by troops. "The number...
...genome of honeybees that came from hives that had suffered from CCD with hives that were healthy. The sick bees exhibited genetic damage that could account for the die-off, and that damage indicated that they might be afflicted with multiple viruses simultaneously. This could weaken them enough to trigger CCD. "It's like a perfect storm," says Berenbaum...
Third, there's no guarantee that financial entities will be willing to sell assets at fire-sale prices. With the federal government and Federal Reserve offering bailouts, many don't have guns pointed at their heads forcing them to pull the trigger on distressed assets...
...simplicity hasn't stopped it from wreaking havoc on humanity for centuries. Even today, with vaccines and antivirals, normal seasonal influenza kills some 36,000 Americans each year. And every once in a while, it gets much worse. When new flu viruses arise and begin spreading easily, they can trigger global pandemics. Sometimes they're relatively mild, like the pandemics of 1957 and '68. But sometimes they can be as catastrophic as the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed as many as 100 million people...
...that the legislation's requirements on fuel economy were too lax. Under the program, newly purchased passenger cars must have a minimum fuel-economy rating of 22 miles per gallon - hardly superefficient - and they need to be only 4 m.p.g. more efficient than the clunker being traded in to trigger the $3,500 credit. (The $4,500 credit requires an improvement in fuel economy of at least 10 m.p.g.) And there's the undeniable fact that destroying an existing car - even a clunker - and manufacturing a new one requires energy and carbon emissions that would be saved if you just...