Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tragedy of Errors. The bill's most mischievous feature is the so-called "trigger mechanism." It forces the President to impose quotas or higher tariffs on any foreign product that is increasing rapidly in sales and has captured 15% of the U.S. marketprovided that the domestic industry can prove injury and the U.S. Tariff Commission recommends action. The President can avoid invoking restrictions only if he finds that they would not be "in the national interest." At present, an estimated 125 foreign productsincluding wigs, radioactive isotopes, sewing machines, autos and TV setswould...
...apotheosis, he ends up with "dirty hands." He stamps out the hydra of revisionism, in the person of Hoederer, but he can only shoot Hoederer after a conflation of damning circumstances have, so to speak, unhinged him. But is he really unhinged since he doesn't actually pull the trigger until jealousy, a bourgeois passion, has set off some passional reflex deep down in his basically bourgeois soul? He sees Hoederer, the ideological enemy, kiss his wife. He shoots Hoederer. Has he acted? Has he validated anything...
...Swan may indeed have found it expedient to rest his case quickly. At least, Army lawyers at the Pentagon think so. They point out that the charge against Mitchell is "assault with intent to murder." Says one Army officer: "All Swan has to prove is that Mitchell pulled the trigger and that there were people in the trench, and he's done that already. Why should he go on and confuse the point with fragmentary evidence? Besides, he has those extra seven witnesses in reserve for rebuttal...
During a 1944 strafing mission in the Pacific, the tormented and by then tainted American hero Charles A. Lindbergh sighted a lone figure on the beach below. "At 1,000 yards, my .50-calibers are deadly . . . I cannot miss . . . My finger tightens on the trigger. A touch, and he will crumple on the coral sand." But there is something about the potential victim's bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death...
Guardsmen had bullets in the chambers of their weapons "loaded and locked" from the moment they stepped on campus. All that was needed to fire was a finger flick of a switch near the trigger. Twice before in the 35 hours preceding the shooting, Guard detachments had knelt and leveled their rifles without firing...