Word: triggered
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...stuck might have blown, damaging the ship. But the very purpose of the bolts is to detonate in the wheel space and do so safely. What's more, the well temperatures rose only about 40ºF in the last minutes of the flight, worrisome but not nearly high enough to trigger or confirm a serious explosion. Said Dittemore: "A 30-to-40-degree rise does not constitute cause for concern...
...Excellency has murdered all his political opponents, even his own family—sometimes pulling the trigger himself. Millions have died and millions more suffer under his tyrannical dictatorship...
Protegent's software screens account activity for exceptions such as churning (excessive trading to generate commissions), overconcentration in particular investments and potential suitability violations like selling high-risk, high-commission stocks to safety-conscious retirees. Brokerages set trigger points according to each customer's attributes, such as age, net worth and level of investing knowledge. In the case of a false alarm (that retiree really did insist on selling all his bonds), no harm is done...
...starving wolf, short of fuel, food and just about everything else. But with a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis still nowhere in sight and Pyongyang stating it is fully capable of making the first military move, the question becomes: is Kim crazy enough to pull the trigger...
...continue talking past each other. That will allow room for a misstep or accident to be dangerously misinterpreted by the other side. As tension builds, it might not take more than a few bullets fired in the DMZ or a patrol boat straying across a disputed demarcation line to trigger full mobilization. North Korea's next move could be the test firing of a missile like the one that flew over Japan in 1998. Other even more dangerous provocations are possible. Gordon Flake, a Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington, fully expects Pyongyang to test...