Word: triggered
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McCulloh has been pursuing these blind photographers for more than a decade, and began pitching the idea of this show four years ago. But the time became right this year, he says because "I'm convinced of its importance. The main trigger is that I've seen a real groundswell of interest around the world in a whole lot of different places, including Tel Aviv, Czechoslovakia, Mexico City, London, Los Angeles.... I felt like the movement was really there." Thanks to crowds and critical acclaim, the exhibit seems likely to show again in Mexico City after leaving Riverside...
...same thing with that laundry list of fees that come with cards. We think that we're not going to be the ones to go over our credit limit or miss a payment and trigger a penalty rate, so we give those fees little to no weight as we're deciding which card to sign up for - even though they eventually make a big difference in what we pay. "We don't tend to take into account future costs," says Oren Bar-Gill, a law professor at New York University who has studied credit-card contracts and customer behavior. "Consumers...
...than gasoline; corn ethanol only passed the stress test (and just barely) when powered by the cleanest possible power. And that analysis assumed it's a good trade-off to accept massive emissions today in exchange for reductions over 30 years, when in fact massive emissions today could help trigger devastating ice melts and other feedback loops that could make reductions over 30 years practically irrelevant...
...sociologist at State University of New York in Albany. In her new study published in the journal Demography, Strully analyzed a variety of job loss situations - including being fired or laid off or losing a job after the entire company shut down - and found that job loss may indeed trigger serious physical and physiological illness...
...question and other points of tension with Iran, Netanyahu has warned that time is short and that Israel will act militarily if U.S. diplomacy fails to halt uranium enrichment in Iran. (The Pentagon fears that military action will be ineffective in stopping Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, and would trigger an even more dangerous regional war.) While Netanyahu - like Maliki, Karzai and Zardari - will likely utter the platitudes Washington expects of him, he's unlikely to actually move forward with implementing Washington's policy. And he may be counting on Israel's strong bipartisan support on Capitol Hill to minimize...