Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think may be a new health hazard -- the omnipresent video-display terminal, or VDT. * Basing their charges on a scattershot array of scientific data, union leaders claim that prolonged work in front of a computer screen can impair vision and cause headaches. Some critics say the work may even trigger miscarriages. The unions' campaign to win mandatory VDT safeguards shows every sign of becoming one of organized labor's more determined efforts of the post-industrial age. Some 19 million people, most of them women, currently work at VDTs in the U.S., a number that will more than double...
...weakness of the case for gun control, but rather to its validity. For once again, the mere presence of a gun can lead not just a hot-tempered youth or a bitter spouse, but even someone as rational and intelligent as Rowan is, to pull the trigger irrationally...
...years, magnetic north and south inexplicably exchange places. Scientists do not understand whether this phenomenon comes about gradually, say, over thousands of years, or all at once. One idea, advanced in recent years, is that turbulent eddies within the core-mantle boundary somehow give rise to electromagnetic disturbances that trigger the reversals. A rain of iron particles, say some scientists, might supply the energy to keep the eddies churning...
...should liberals hesitate to credit the Reagan Administration for taking part in and encouraging this watershed period in superpower relations. Remember those early associations of a trigger happy Reagan with the spectacle of nuclear...
...began by saying that he had some bad news to deliver, that one of the truly great figures in American history had been gunned down. He told the nearly all-Black crowd that he understood they would be angry at white America, since a white man had pulled the trigger. But then he added that his brother had been shot, and that a white man had pulled the trigger that time, too. They listened to him, and applauded...