Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor pointed out that there was a precedent for such action in the moratoriums on mortgage payments enacted during the Depression. These were subsequently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the deferral of payments may trigger lawsuits by noteholders...
Oswald's 6.5 mm. Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle required at least 2.3 seconds between each firing to work the bolt, aim and pull the trigger. Thus it was possible for Oswald to have fired both shots at Kennedy within five seconds-but not to have got off a third shot that wounded Connally within the same time span. Since the bullet that went through Kennedy's neck obviously was traveling on a downward course but left no hole anywhere in the car, the Warren Commission staff concluded that it must have hit Connally...
...Communist plot. "When I took office," Johnson told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos in June 1971, "I discovered that we had been operating a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean. I never believed that Oswald acted alone, although I can accept that he was the one who pulled the trigger...
...Joint Economic Committee that the Federal Reserve lacks authority to help New York; only Congress can do that. Somewhat contradictorily, he continued to maintain that "the damage stemming from a prospective default is likely to be short-lived." But under questioning, he hedged and said that a default could trigger a recession. Added Burns: "If I were a member of Congress and a vote were taken today, I'd vote against help for the city. How I would feel two weeks from now, I cannot say." He suggested that the best way to help New York would be a federal...
...midweek, a small white car sped past police headquarters in the Barcelona suburb of La Verneda just after midnight and sprayed the modern building with machine-gun fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second...