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...There appeared to be no single trigger. Though McFarlane's hospitalization came only two hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by a presidential commission investigating Iranscam, there was no indication that he faced any damaging new disclosures. Rather, the former Marine colonel seemed to friends to be tormented by a nagging general sense of failure. As National Security Adviser, he sometimes confessed frustration at being unable to "move these elephants," his unflattering description of the powerful foreign policy Pooh-Bahs in the Reagan Administration...
...received and decoded by the hand-held PowerJet and related toys. In a typical battle, villains on the TV show hurl fireballs and other menacing projectiles toward the screen, which signals youngsters and their weapons that it is time to fire back. When the child pulls the trigger promptly, the hand-held toy detects the successful hit and racks up points on a scoreboard that is displayed on the toy. If a player fails to blast the enemy, his toy may take enemy hits and suffer imaginative damage effects. Example: When a PowerJet "blows up," it ejects its pilot onto...
SUPPOSE THE professor says, "the main character in this play is a Christ figure. Thank you. Have a good weekend." This will immediately trigger a pleasant sounding latch mechanism, opening a hatch from which a credit towards tenure will fall. If the professor already has tenure, he gets an autographed picture of himself...
...chairman of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, told reporters that there was only a "very slim chance" for peace. Though Aquino maintains that she will use force only as a last resort, Communist Negotiator Antonio Zumel said the New People's Army "shall remain ready to pull the trigger...
Past attempts to implant fetal islet cells failed because a small percentage of these cells have antigenic markers that trigger an immune response. "The classic view was that since these antigens were genetically controlled, there was no way to remove them from the cell," says Kevin Lafferty, an Australian-born immunologist who is director of research at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver. In 1980, however, Lafferty discovered that culturing islet cells in an oxygen-rich environment for a couple of weeks kills those that bear trigger antigens. Says Calvin Stiller, an immunologist at the University...