Word: triggered
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...patients, since diuretics are cheap: they cost about $25 a year, in contrast to $250 for ACE inhibitors and $500 for calcium channel blockers. Doctors have also learned that they can prescribe diuretics in much smaller doses than they did 20 or 30 years ago, which means the drugs trigger fewer side effects like dizziness...
...this story sat around for several days last week before the politicians turned their blood up to boil is also a bit suspicious. Even hair-trigger moralizers like Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain were slow this time. The President's deliberations were exceptionally deliberate. On Days 5 and 6 after Lott's remarks, the White House shrugged the matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other...
...that Washington might retaliate with nuclear weapons. Or his engineers might have been unable to perfect the sophisticated fuse needed to spread a cloud of sarin or VX gas half a mile wide, a lethal fog capable of killing thousands of people in its path. Such devices--used to trigger car air bags--are now common. --With reporting by Azadeh Moaveni/Cairo and Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...briefing was simply an update from Dr. Blix, and his team is due to make its preliminary assessment of Iraqi compliance with on January 27. The Bush Administration would have had little chance of convincing the Security Council right now that an incomplete declaration by Iraq was enough to trigger a war - after all, the Iraqis have not impeded the work of UNMOVIC and the inspectors have not reported finding any signs of prohibited weapons activity. The Council's response to an incomplete declaration may well be simply to urge UNMOVIC to seek answers to specific unanswered questions, such...
...means Iraq also has to report on thousands of so-called dual-use facilities such as paint factories, pesticide plants, hospitals and distilleries, which could conceivably be involved in making weapons, along with material-procurement networks and import lists. U.S. officials say a misleading or incomplete report will not trigger instant military action, since they want inspections to go on to document a convincing pattern of misbehavior before they act against Iraq...