Word: triggered
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...hand over of Mass. Hall will trigger a reshuffling of the ranks inside the Office of the President. While no senior administrators have announced plans to depart, several of Summers’ key staffers will lose their jobs tomorrow along with the president, as Bok is expected to maintain only a small staff during his interim tenure...
...Thousands of people, of course, endure some form of voluntary intra-nasal feeding every day in hospital settings. But when force-feeding is involuntary and the recipient is in a state of high anxiety, the muscles tense up and the procedure can trigger nausea, bleeding, diarrhea and vomiting. "We are humane and compassionate,"; Guantanamo commander Harris told TIME, "but if we tell a detainee to do something, we expect the detainee to do it." As a note scrawled in al-Shehri's medical records put it: "[The prisoner] was informed that dying is not permitted...
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams effectively pulled the trigger Tuesday on the long-anticipated departure of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from full participation in its global brotherhood - although the bullet could take several years to reach its mark. Episcopalians are a numerically small (2.3 million) but fiscally significant part of Williams' 77 million-member Anglican Communion. The possible breaking off of the U.S. church from the Communion - and the fissioning of the American church that would likely accompany it - would probably result in mourning for a deep historical and spiritual bond, not to mention acrimonious squabbles over money...
...legal process will clear the party's name. The stakes are high: if the Constitutional Court decides against it, Thai Rak Thai could be dissolved and its executives, including Thaksin, barred from public office for five years. It would be an ignominious end for the party and would trigger mass defections by members anxious not to be left out in the cold before the next election, scheduled for October. Some are already bailing out: Wissanu Krea-ngam, one of six Deputy Prime Ministers, resigned last week, saying he wants to return to academia. "It's a sinking ship, but slowly...
...time when a handful of terrorists can trigger an exponentially larger tragedy, such a policy can seem prudent. But the recent arrests in Miami, and of 17 Canadian residents who allegedly plotted to use fertilizer bombs on sites in Ontario, ultimately raise more questions than they answer about the level of threat. Are these men the tip of the iceberg, with many other home-grown cells lurking below the surface? Or is America so inhospitable to made-in-the-U.S.A. terrorism that street-corner confidence men are all we're producing...