Word: triggered
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...Cuba on property confiscated from Cuban-Americans or U.S. companies. But so far not even President Bush has been willing to let a Helms-Burton suit go forward, largely for fear of alienating allies like Spain that have big investments in Cuba. "The Administration just won't pull the trigger," says Nicolas Gutierrez, 42, a Cuban-American attorney in Miami who represents the De la Camaras, as well as other exile families in suits against foreign firms operating in Cuba on confiscated property - including one, the Sanchez-Hills, that owned oceanfront tracts in Cuba now occupied by luxury resorts...
...political comeback of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych would seem to be a major setback for the celebrated Orange Revolution that brought President Viktor Yuschchenko to power in late 2004. It was the Russian-backed Yanukovych, leader of the eastern-leaning Party of the Regions (PR), who helped trigger the peaceful democratic uprising after initially winning a rigged Presidential election...
...says that in every mission, a pilot tries to check and double-check that a target is free of civilians before he presses the trigger on his weapons. Before firing, the pilot must first get clearance from a superior officer tapped into intelligence data and in radio contact with ground troops. Still, the decision to fire ultimately rests with the fighter pilot. "We've had many cases of canceling missions, returning with our bombs, because at the last minute the pilot saw people who weren't Hizballah," says Col. A, who points out that in the dozens of daily sorties...
...analogy to a teenager's fatal attraction to smoking has not been lost on the medical community. Doctors point out new evidence that tanning, whether indoor or out, may be somewhat addictive. Small-scale studies by researchers at North Carolina's Wake Forest University indicate that tanning may trigger endorphins, which could be why sunbathing feels so relaxing and why frequent tanners experience withdrawal-like symptoms if they don't get their regular fix. So public-health officials and consumer advocates are taking lessons from the antismoking movement. Not only are they pushing for laws to curb young people...
...goes wrong, and they blame it on the innocent guy whose truck they used. But the movie quickly shifts its focus from the decent victim, Steve (bland Ed Kelly), to the psycho, Duke Martin (strutting John Ireland), who has a dandy's affectations - he uses perfumed bullets - and promiscuous trigger finger. In the film's 72 mins. he kills four people, most of them witnesses to the crime Steve has been framed...