Word: triggered
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...must be cherished by someone, cared about - at least enough for someone to snap her photo. Remaining forgotten, though, is not a story. It would be nice if, when the next alert goes out, rousing the public's justifiable outrage and the media's sometimes questionable interest, it might trigger a wider, silent alarm as well - for the kids who can't disappear because they are already lost
...initially had significant bipartisan agreement: the creation of a Homeland Security Department. No one is against it. It's just that the Democratic Senate's version offers civil-service protection to the department's 170,000 employees. But Bush, who wants flexibility to hire and fire, says that could trigger his first veto. These differences may evaporate quickly under Washington's fever to show it can get things done...
Wildfires result from a confluence of fuel, dryness and some kind of trigger. Each factor contributes to the severity of the blaze...
...terrorist shooting. I saw him pull the trigger-now I also know who put the bullet in the gun barrel." ANAT HARARI, Israeli who was wounded in an April Palestinian terror attack in Adora, reacting to accusations that Jewish settlers stole army ammunition and sold it to Palestinian militants...
SWONK: It started with Michael Milken and Henry Kravis, the hostile takeovers. You could actually fire a ceo. It started in the '80s, culminated in the '90s and was a massive trigger point to adopting new technologies more rapidly, and cost cutting becoming a mantra. People are rewarded for cost cutting...