Word: triggered
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...seemed to trigger a Harvard explosion that saw the Crimson take 70 of the final 94 points of the match...
...also overdo it with eyedrops and actually wash out your own tears," Akpek says. Also, watch for products whose active ingredients end with the suffix -zoline. Those are vasoconstrictors designed to reduce redness and should not be used for more than a few days, since they can trigger a rebound effect, increasing redness...
...Downing Street. Blair knows this, and may be gambling that Brown would retreat to the backbenches. Blair also knows that Brown might launch a leadership bid and trigger the outcome Labourites fear most: civil war. That would damage Blair at home and abroad, especially in a year when Britain already holds the presidency of the G8, takes over at the E.U. in the summer, and should be preparing for its referendum on the E.U. constitution. But the Prime Minister and his allies may calculate that the biggest casualty would be Brown himself, because the party would blame...
...Revelations of corruption in the Ukraine election trigger a second Russian Revolution; Putin resigns...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--who has long opposed a permanent hike in the Army's 500,000-strong active-duty force--made himself scarce as these troubling indicators surfaced. The Defense chief has argued that retooling the Army--turning cooks and accountants into trigger pullers and hiring contractors to perform such civilian tasks, among other steps--should generate efficiencies that would ease the strain on the Army without having to boost its size. But other Pentagon officials doubt that such measures will suffice. "We're growing increasingly concerned about the health of the force," an Army personnel officer says. "These...