Word: triggered
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...other words, Rhodes is drawn to balancing acts at the edge of despair, above what he calls "a hole in the world." His was blasted open in 1938 when his mother put a 12-gauge shotgun in her mouth and pushed the trigger with a slat...
...August. At these price levels, the heating-oil bill for the average Northeast homeowner could rise 50% this winter, to an estimated $1,200. The most immediate threat is an outbreak of war in the Persian Gulf, which could send oil prices into the $50-per-bbl. range and trigger double- digit inflation...
...several directions at once, none of them encouraging, some of them infinitely sad, all of them frightening. The authorities have tried to give outsiders the appearance of business as usual. But there is no hiding the reality that, be there war soon or a few more months of hair-trigger peace, life for the Iraqi nation is changing irrevocably...
Doubt still obscures the affiliations of the man who actually pulled the trigger. But Marton's diligent research provides a convincing case against those who allowed the killers to go free and others who shared responsibility for covering up the truth...
...years ago, the Midwestern rift stopped growing. The New Madrid fault today simply marks a weak spot in the thick midcontinental crust, which periodically ruptures under the pressure exerted by the migrating North American plate. It could take 500 to 1,000 years for enough force to accumulate to trigger a really big quake...