Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gejdenson warned that if the subs are cut from the budget--which would mean that for the first time since 1953 the United States was not ordering attack submarines--it could trigger layoffs and slow production of the new SSN-21 Seawolf submarines...
...issue in question was not merely transportation per se, but the importance of public education. In writing the majority decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor addressed the issue directly: "Nor have we accepted the proposition that education is a fundamental right like equality of the franchise, which should trigger strict scrutiny when the government interferes with an individual's access...
...Force Space Command. The problem exists at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly to discharge fuel tanks or fire air-to-air weapons. To guard against accidental explosions, the radar is manually shut down for up to 90 seconds whenever a plane approaches the field...
...breaking down the morale of government troops, the rebels hope to trigger defections or even rebellion within the army ranks. Some rebel commanders boast that army garrisons around the country have arranged for their own surrender, and that soldiers will turn themselves over to the mujahedin shortly after the last Soviets pull out. But according to one scenario making the rounds in Washington, the rebels will not need to manipulate the economic and military noose for very long. The ruling party, these analysts conclude, will hang itself. "The rot within the ((ruling party)) is already pronounced," says a State Department...
...getting them in. They're smart as hell. Their eyesight and hearing are incredible, about ten times better than a human's. The trick is in getting them where you want them, on your terms. Then you control the situation, not them. You have the options. Pull the trigger or don't. It doesn't matter once you've got them where you want them. The important thing is knowing that it's in your hands, that you can do whatever you determine is in your interest to do. I don't know, though," he adds after a few seconds...