Word: triggered
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...latest panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its brain-wasting human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, erupted late last year. The first trigger was the recall of possibly tainted beef-believed to be the main vector of human infection-by three French supermarket chains. Then came reports that Germany, Spain and Italy, previously untouched by the epidemic, had discovered their first bse cases. "I lost between 50% and 60% of my customers overnight," says Paris butcher Alain Lamarchand...
...they are leery of a tax cut as high as $1.6 trillion. Jeffords likely will be brought back into the GOP fold, say Republican and Democratic Senate sources, but Chafee is a problem for Bush. So is Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has been talking up the idea of a "trigger" to kick in a higher tax cut only if surplus projections...
Nervous about rosy surplus projections, Senate moderates have floated the idea of a "trigger" that would postpone tax cuts in later years if there's no surplus to cover them. Bill Thomas, House Ways and Means Committee chairman, has ideas of his own, such as moving the tax-rate cuts through his committee before taking up other parts of the package. "You know, Bill," Bush joked with Thomas at a White House meeting, "you can pass anything you want as long as it's my bill." The two men laughed--but both knew that wasn't the case...
...heart-lung machine takes over the job of oxygenating the blood and pumping it through the body. Studies have shown that microscopic bubbles of air or tiny bits of fat and plaque are often loosed into the bloodstream in the process. Even if they are too small to trigger a full-scale stroke, they may cause minor damage in the cerebral tissue...
...prodded her to appear on a company-sponsored radio program. Not long after, she was cast in her first of 28 films with Rogers, beginning a long reign as the radiant "Queen of the West." Despite her immense popularity, she was often outbilled by her husband's horse, Trigger, which co-starred in 90-plus Rogers films...