Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another $1.5 million for additional drilling to recover gas from the lower cavities. But even if they can, the future of nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than the AEC'S experts had predicted, limiting the amount...
Other episodes in the book are set down for the first time, and some of them will provide fuel for critics of the agency and perhaps trigger unpleasant cables to Henry Kissinger from foreign capitals. A likely instance is the book's recounting of how in the mid-1960s the CIA helped Peru to quash an indigenous guerrilla movement. At the request of the government, headed by Fernando Belaunde Terry, the agency erected a miniature Fort Bragg in the heart of the Peruvian jungle and recruited a crack counterinsurgency team, which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage...
Whatever formula is devised for federal financing, wouldn't a plump public kitty encourage frivolous fringe candidates? Certainly, unless some form of "trigger" or "threshold" mechanism is devised that would compel a candidate to raise a certain amount of private money before federal funds were doled...
...collar-an earnest highway patrolman named Slide (Michael Sacks), whose lectures on police procedures, vehicular maintenance and the prevention of marital discord make him first a hostage, then an accomplice. Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson), the cop who organizes the comical pursuit of the miscreants, must ride herd on his trigger-happy associates. He must also keep the inevitable crowds of reporters and television crewmen from turning events into a media circus. In neither endeavor is he entirely successful...
...limps around, bursts into fits of rage and screws up his face like David Fry. The character of Captain Absolute is cold and obnoxious, and Richard Bangs's performance does not add any warmth to the part. Bangs often seems to be just reading his lines. Sir Lucius O'Trigger is a stock Irish figure, and while Richard Carey handles the brogue well, he's just too sanguine for any man--regardless of nationality. Bob Acres is another stereotype, the country bumpkin. Bernard Holmberg is at first intriguing in this role, but as the night wears on, his loud cartoon...