Word: triggered
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...three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed a prodigious inability to distinguish his own money from his clients'. After the SEC got wind of his next venture, Creative Limited Partners, Frankel was barred from trading securities (presuming he could pull the trigger) on behalf of investors...
...Europe might have been characterized by infantry charges in which human lives were willingly spent for tactical ends, this mission will be characterized by a desire to establish peace with the same zero-casualty figure the Pentagon managed during the air war. So, Marines in Kosovo are on hair-trigger alert. "There's a big difference between combat and peacekeeping, and it can switch quickly from one to the other," says Sergeant Major John Sekula, the Marine battalion landing team's top enlisted man. "The biggest thing we have to focus on is the individual Marine's restraint...
Police brutality in New York City. Racial profiling in New Jersey. Quick trigger fingers in Chicago, where two unarmed black motorists were killed by police in separate incidents on a single day earlier this month. Judging by the national headlines, it is a season of cops gone mad. The story in Phoenix is different, but it is part of the same drama--the constantly stressed marriage between mostly white police forces and the minorities they work with, who are at once disproportionately the victims of crime and its perpetrators. The great majority of hardworking, law-abiding minority residents need...
Both drugs have been dubbed "designer estrogens" because they block estrogen's ability to promote tumor growth in the breast while at the same time mimicking the hormone's salutary effects on the spine. (About 75% of all breast cancers are estrogen-sensitive.) But they can also trigger serious side effects, including potentially fatal blood clots. So the good news about designer estrogens must always be tempered with some heavy-duty caveats...
...important to remember one thing, says Gorman: "It is not religious experience that makes you more prone to mental illness. Rather it?s the other way around: If someone already suffers from an underlying mental illness, then it is possible that having a profoundly emotional or spiritual experience can trigger a religious delusion and its acting...