Word: triggered
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This strategy has been effective, but it has also meant that the debate has taken place on what is often dubious grounds. Death alone does not trigger a tax; passing on a large estate does. And those mom-and-pop sob stories are overblown. The fact is, less than 2% of the federal revenue derived from estate taxes comes from farms and small businesses...
...state's tobacco litigation. "We're the last fighters available for the little guy." They say they've been on the right side of the big issues for decades, from getting air bags in cars to limiting tobacco companies' advertising to minors to forcing gun companies to install trigger locks...
...year, showing that in 1997 and 1998 several top aides recommended that Reno request an independent counsel on the question of Gore's fund-raising calls from the White House, and whether he lied about their nature. Gore might, for the first time, be wishing she had pulled the trigger then; at least it might be over...
...Garland's washed-up husband) and Geraldine Page (the perfectionist wife and mother of Interiors) walk into the sea, never to return. As if leaving an ocean lying around is not unlike keeping a loaded pistol on the coffee table--sooner or later, someone's going to pull the trigger...
...Will Reno pull the trigger this time? TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak weighs...