Word: triggered
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...waited too long to pull the trigger, and a defender blocked...
...that supplements of estrogen, unlike the combination of estrogen and progestin, did not appear to increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. Perhaps estrogen pills work more selectively in the body than anyone had realized. Or perhaps the type of progestin used in studies was more likely to trigger tumor growth...
...power by the U.S. And Sistani and the Shiites are so keen to see the U.S. out that they're willing to deal with the Kurdish veto later. (The Kurds, incidentally, believe the interim constitution granted them a de facto state that included Kirkuk - a misconception that could trigger a civil war, and, to the extent that it is shared in Turkey, touch off a wider regional conflict. But that's another story...
...crew of PCF-44 as a true Band of Brothers-it turns out they were a Band of Brothers minus one. A disappointed Wasser gave me Gardner?s telephone numbers, reminding me that PCF-44 gunner?s mate was nicknamed ?The Wild Man? by his crewmates for his hair-trigger penchant for firing M-60s into the mangrove thicket. ?Let me know what you find out,? Wasser told me. ?I?m having trouble understanding where he?s coming from...
...came from cumulus cells, which surround eggs during development). With a quantity of eggs that a commentary in Science calls "whopping," the scientists were able to experiment with different techniques to find which worked best--varying the time between inserting the new nucleus and zapping it with electricity to trigger cell division, for example, or testing different growth media...