Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is set in the Potted Palms Hotel, which Alex and Randy have just inherited from Randy's Uncle Harold. There are corpses in the closets, a comic policeman who wants protection money ("nobody's going to get shot unless I pull the trigger," he reassures everyone,) and Cosmic Debris, who claims to be an old friend of Uncle Harold ("Poor old Harold," he sniffs miserably. "Sometimes I think all he ever lived for were the mangoes and the potted palms.") As in any other farce, the plot finally comes unravelled with a bang--four, in fact. Afterwards, two women...
...line. The chauvinist pitch was only his means to exploit the public temper. So he sloganeered like a mechanical mouthpiece,. or the little kid who recites what he's heard from his parents' discussions -- not because he understands the import of the phrase, but because he'd seen it trigger an excitement...
South Africans were stunned by the sudden bloodshed. Students picketed Western Deep's offices in downtown Johannesburg with signs saying LOW WAGES CAUSE REVOLUTION and SAP [South African Police] is TRIGGER HAPPY. The English-language press called for an inquiry, and the Natal Mercury cautioned that South Africans should take the incident as a warning about the increasing tensions and frustrations generated by the years of apartheid. South Africa's implacable Prime Minister, John Vorster, seemed to take a different view; he praised the police for acting with "considerable restraint." Meanwhile, as the Africans mourned their dead, Western...
Neither will go away. As for the economy, Nixon noted: "It's very easy to turn the crank so tight that you have a hard landing" - meaning that a wild, groping effort to stamp out inflation at any cost could easily trigger a recession...
...Stanford's plan is the cellulose in wastepaper and grass clippings. Although cellulose is indigestible for man, it is the basic diet of microorganisms that can trigger a natural sequence of soil enrichment. Stanford proposes to plow cellulose-containing material in garbage into the desert soil. Next, he would fertilize it with "sludge," a purified end product of sewage treatment that looks like gruel, smells like tar and is loaded with nutrients. Using a little sewage water for irrigation, Stanford says, will then turn the desert into a vast garden. His theory makes eminent sense to scientists...