Word: triggered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When Elijah laid himself down and prepared to die, an angel of the Lord came visiting with freshly baked cake and gave Elijah the strength to carry on. When Brother Jim prepared to die, the angel of death apparently gave him the strength to pull the trigger twice. Both bullets pierced his heart...
...that passed both houses last year, countered possibly by some targeted cuts that Democrats want. Bush is promising "the tax cut I ran on," and thus size and scope are probably less negotiable than fine-print content. And with the public's sense of fiscal responsibility on a hair trigger, that goes for Republicans...
...addition to the factors that often seem to trigger depression in people of all ages, especially during the dark winter months and around the holidays, older people must cope with the loss of loved ones, social isolation and the physical limitations that often come with age. Physical changes in the brain caused by illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular (i.e., stroke-related) insufficiency, alcohol and drug abuse, and some antihypertensive medications also predispose the elderly to depression. Studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester division, confirm that medical illnesses...
...forbid you ever have to pull that trigger," Favreau says...
That's welcome news to clinicians and patients alike. Traditional cancer treatments--chemotherapy and radiation--are therapeutic blunderbusses; they blast indiscriminately at all fast-growing cells, often destroying healthy tissue along with the tumors. By comparison, the new drugs are smart bombs; they cause minimal collateral damage and trigger relatively few side effects...