Word: triggered
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...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...
...exhausting ritual, but worth it, according to Niwet. A few years ago he had a tiger tattooed on his chest. He got into a tight spot and someone pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. "The tiger did that," he says. In theory the tattoos shouldn't work for anyone who fails to lead his life according to the Buddha's precepts, which include nonviolence. But the monks admit that their tattoos tap into a power even they cannot fully explain...
...Restoration of 1868 catapulted Japan into the industrial age in the blink of a historian's eye, as did the post-war economic "miracle"?a word employed by Western commentators who failed to see rapid growth coming. It may be that the demographic and financial meltdowns Japan faces will trigger another volcanic transition, and soon. It may be that this change will promote meritocracy, protect the environment, modernize the economy, strangle the Yakuza, muzzle corruption and, crucially for my family's future, usher in a broader definition of what it is to be Japanese. I hope so. I have...
...left more than 600 dead. The hard-line Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) finally agreed to await a court's verdict on the construction of a Hindu temple at a disputed site at Ayodhya. But Muslim leaders say the VHP's demand for access to an adjacent site could also trigger more sectarian violence...
...terror war's next phase. Remarks by Bush and stories planted by his aides make clear that Saddam Hussein is very much in Washington's sights, even though he has not so far been linked to Sept. 11. But when, how, and even whether the U.S. will pull the trigger is still a mystery, perhaps as much in Washington as anywhere else. "We're now fairly certain that the Americans want to press on with Iraq," says a British official. "What is totally unclear is what that means...