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CAPTION: WAYS TO TRIGGER IMMUNITY...
...peace, typically stimulates huge demand for goods and services. That didn't happen this time, in part because this war was fought mostly with stockpiled off-the-shelf weapons and munitions. Now a growing number of economists and businesspeople are predicting, suggesting, hoping -- praying -- that the cease-fire will trigger an improvement in the economy by boosting consumer confidence and spending. "Peace is a jump-starter," says John Tuccillo, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. "This is the catalyst that can get the thing cooking. It's not the whole story, but it is a spark, and that...
Wall Street. Victory had been discounted for several weeks by the stock market, where a raging bull can help trigger a speedy recovery. The Dow Jones industrial average closed this week at 2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its October low. Daily trading volume since January has averaged 195 million shares, 19% higher than a year ago. If this keeps up, the securities industry will post its most profitable quarter in nearly a year. Assets of mutual funds -- including risky small-company and junk-bond funds -- grew a record $59 billion...
...East was too vital to American strategic and economic interests to allow a ruthless dictator to run roughshod through the region. The U.S. had to stop Saddam. We had to prevent him from gaining a stranglehold on the region's oil supplies. We had to eliminate his power to trigger devastating chemical or even nuclear wars. Most important, we had to send a clear message to Saddam and to future Saddams that wanton aggression in the Middle East would be met forcefully...
Child-custody disputes are often the trigger for youngsters' unwitting lies. Suspicions can cause parents to launch what legal scholar Douglas Besharov of Washington's American Enterprise Institute calls "the atomic bomb of child- custody fights, the charge of sex abuse." In these stressful situations, children quickly discover what adults want to hear and can offer lies or distortions in order to please an anxious parent or social worker. A study conducted by the American Academy of Child Psychiatry found that in custody disputes involving charges of sex abuse, as many as 36% of the allegations were later proved...