Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because he acknowledges the possibility of an Armageddon, President Reagan has been accused of being more willing to push the nuclear-war button [RELIGION, Nov. 5]. Believing in the inevitability of Armageddon does not automatically make one trigger-happy and dangerous. I accept the inevitability of death, yet I am not a careless driver. It does not follow that the belief hi a literal Armageddon has to be linked with a reckless willingness to enter a nuclear...
...first President since Hoover not to have met with a Soviet leader. Then Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to call and somewhat stilled that talk. Reagan, who only 19 months before had lashed out at the "evil empire," had managed to neutralize the old anxiety that he is trigger-happy. In any case, the nation was at peace...
...Having them is just like having a rifle: you point it, pull the trigger, and boom!" Crimson Coach Jape Shattuck said of his stars. "Not everyone is so aware of how huge the goal...
...been a cardinal principle of American and allied planning that the Soviets must be forced to contend with the very real possibility that an attack on Europe would trigger a punitive response from American weapons...Extended deterrence has been a way of making it more difficult for the Soviets to pursue a divide-and-conquer strategy toward NATO: it has been a way of "coupling" American and West European defenses...But as a result of their buildup in the late sixties and seventies, the Soviets drastically reduced and may have eliminated the American margin...It seemed now that the Soviet...
After scoring a pair of goals in the booters' 5-0 shutout of the University of New Hampshire on September 26, Landry--normally good for at least a goal per game--had trouble finding the trigger against Brown and Keene State the next week...