Word: triggered
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...We’re just trying to fix it, that’s all.” But rumor has it that an unidentified Harvard student, beat, for lack of a better phrase, the (non-)living shit out of the thing. Who knew that unsolicited home equity advice could trigger such amusing aggression? Their emphatic hellos had infuriated some, including, Stephen M. Fee ’07, a Crimson editor, who devoted his Sept. 29 rant in FM to Sovereign Bank’s talking man-advertisements. Fee claimed that the Square’s newest residents...
...Debate over a physical cause of depression tends to become bogged in uncertainty over cause and effect. Does a spontaneous chemical abnormality trigger the bad feelings we call depression, or might years of unresolved anxiety and festering discontent cause chemical disturbances - disturbances that might fix themselves once sufferers put their lives in order? By slowly unraveling the extraordinary complexity of neurotransmitter interaction, scientists are learning more about how the brain works. But they still wouldn't claim to know the half of it. Pinning depression on a chemical imbalance is problematic when what constitutes normal brain chemistry...
Before a terrorist attack can take place, a weapon must be assembled. Volatile ingredients must be combined, a trigger put in place, a timer set ticking. That weapon is the mind of the terrorist. But since 9/11--and before--pop culture has focused mainly on the other sort of bombs...
...boyish-looking Badian, 36, of East European descent, seems an unlikely key figure in a high-stakes Wall Street intrigue. Yet long-standing criminal and civil charges place Badian at the center of a scheme to lend Arizona software developer Sedona much needed operating capital, then trigger the collapse of its stock and profit from the company's demise. This pattern is also alleged in the civil suit handed to Badian on Aug. 8 in his apartment in Austria--only this time the mark was pet-supplies company Pet Quarters, based in Lonoke...
...past 20 years, says Gheit, the refining industry has been losing money--or has barely made it: "[The industry was] closing refineries because they weren't profitable." That set up a situation in which a hurricane like Katrina or Rita or last year's Ivan could trigger a shortage by putting even a few of the remaining U.S.-based refineries out of business for a few weeks. Yet the industry is reluctant to build more refineries, Gheit says, because "they've been burned before. It's like the boom and bust in real estate...