Word: triggered
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Community education is also part of the study, its leaders say. For many of thhe tenants who were trained as surveyors, this project brought them into the work force and taught them to identify household agents that can trigger asthma...
...almost hysterical uproar blew up over the BBC's coverage of the royal death. The trigger was BBC newscaster Peter Sissons, who did not switch his maroon tie to the traditional black tie of mourning as did presenters on the independent channels in those first hours of the royal death coverage. There were other charges, led by the right-wing Daily Mail, of insensitive BBC interviewing and claims that Prince Charles had been angry enough to give the rival ITV channel an interview about his grandmother rather than the BBC. It turned out, however, that the interview had been allotted...
...with a clean bill of health. Soon afterward he drops dead of a heart attack. Why didn't his tests show anything amiss? Cardiologists are increasingly convinced they have discovered the answer. Evidence is growing that not all the fatty deposits found in coronary arteries are equally prone to trigger heart attacks. Often the smallest, least detectable plaques are the most dangerous--because of their unhappy tendency to burst, triggering the formation of a clot that blocks a blood vessel...
Nonetheless, some of Andersen's most prestigious and loyal clients--including pharmaceutical giant Merck, mortgage agency Freddie Mac and Delta Airlines--are canceling contracts. "There's such a drumbeat of departures that it may trigger a flow of clients they can't stop," says Richard Ossoff, publisher of Auditor-Trak, which follows the accounting industry. "The 'Big Four' is a potential outcome." This reality is not lost on Andersen's competitors. A senior employee at Deloitte & Touche says his firm is "going after Andersen companies dead...
...convinced him Putin was aware that the state security service, or FSB, was behind the bomb attacks. "I am not saying Putin ordered the attacks," he told journalists at a London press conference. "I am saying that he knew such things were taking place." The aim had been to trigger a wave of outrage and allow Putin, who had been Prime Minister for less than a month, to show himself a man of action. Immediately after the blasts, the government announced that they were the work of Chechen terrorists. Days later Russia launched military operations against the lawless, breakaway republic...