Word: triggered
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Palestinian gunmen in Gaza lure in Israeli troops and trigger a bomb under a tank, killing three soldiers. Made with C-4, the bomb is much more powerful than most used by Palestinians...
...fired my very first round, calmly directing my hand to the proper position on the gun and reassuring me each time I hesitated. “Remember,” he said, “make sure you don’t put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.” I looked down at my right forefinger, which was wrapped tightly around the trigger even though I was holding the gun at my side, with its barrel dangling somewhere above the second and fourth toes of my right foot. I lifted...
...wondering if it's time to play hardball. Koizumi, despite his bold promises of reform when he took office 10 months ago, has accomplished little. Japan's decade-long economic slide is only picking up speed, and Bush Administration officials are concerned that further inaction in Tokyo may trigger an economic crisis with global reverberations...
...some pot and hemp plants back then were closer cousins than they are today. Even now, people caught with marijuana occasionally claim it's only hemp. Cops have complained that they can't tell the difference. And as recently as the mid-'90s, a few hemp-food products could trigger a false-positive result on a drug test...
Advocates say such concerns are out of date. Today hemp can be grown with its seeds closely monitored to keep THC negligible, and a recent scholarly study showed that today's hemp foods don't trigger false positives. What's more, in open fields, low-THC hemp is actually a threat to high-THC marijuana. Since hemp and marijuana are members of the same species, they will cross-pollinate, degrading the quality of any pot hidden in a hemp field...