Word: triggered
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...sadness of turning away dozens of workers every day who wanted to sneak across the closed border only to bring home some food. But my soldiers and I also stopped three terrorists from shooting civilians to death in Afula. I know I saved lives without ever pulling a trigger. It is hard to imagine, but sometimes the Palestinians we refused entry into Israel would stay around for a while, and we would share our dinner with them, and we’d talk about a future where they’d never have to see us again, where the Palestinian...
...continued to develop weapons of mass destruction. While that point is broadly agreed, the breakdown has been over the terms of those inspections, and how to proceed if they're blocked, with the Russians and French leading a Security Council majority leery of being used simply to create a "trigger" mechanism for an invasion few Council members believe is a wise or prudent course of action. Indeed, the Administration may have erred by calling for an open debate on Iraq at the Security Council last week, because it created a platform for the overwhelming majority of UN member states...
...another option would be to try to shut down Iraq's biological and chemical facilities as well as its missile-launch sites with high-powered microwave weapons called "E-bombs," which would fry the computer circuits needed to operate such systems. The U.S. used a similar technology to trigger widespread power failures during the 1999 war with Serbia...
...Ports on both sides of the Pacific have now started clearing out huge backlogs of goods. Shipping companies estimate that schedules will still be affected two months from now. It could have been worse, analysts say. A disruption lasting 30 days would trigger a regional recession. A remaining concern: Bush's injunction bought an 80-day respite. But if the labor dispute is still not resolved in that time, another shutdown could strike early next year?threatening to reinfect Asia with a nasty case of the economic...
...reports of rising fundamentalism that earlier this year Zia twice denied that there were any "Taliban" in her government, or even in Bangladesh. But a Bangladeshi government official tells TIME that while Zia's administration is aware of the fundamentalist threat inside the country, tackling it head-on might trigger a violent backlash. Foreign Minister Morshed Khan took the same line, telling TIME that it was better to have such groups inside the government, looking...