Word: triggers
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...amenable to a U.S.-brokered Israeli withdrawal. It has generally been assumed that Syria felt it had nothing to lose in seeing Israel mired in Lebanon. Some Western diplomats in Damascus contend, however, that Assad now fears that the growing violence against the Israelis in southern Lebanon may trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria, however, may offer vague assurances that Israel's northern border will...
...women who have worked virtually all their lives to make Dallas a better city. The leaders of Dallas have done infinitely more for their city than Mr. Feinberg will ever do for anyone, save maybe himself. His portrayal of the Dallas police force as a group of trigger-happy rednecks is an insult to the hundreds of fine men and women of all races who have served their city with pride and honor. I find particularly galling the implication that Dallas' minorities are overwhelmingly poor. I consider this extremely insulting, not only to myself and my family, but also...
...country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner, president of the Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council. "The cheerful mood can easily be converted into hedonism, which in turn can trigger a destruction of the moral fiber of American life." The conversion of the burgeoning self-esteem into a new selfishness may already have begun. Among students of the preppie Landon School in Bethesda, Md., the mood is all about money. Says Headmaster Malcolm Coates: "I'd like...
Nonetheless, even if the union decides to expand its walkout, a GM strike is unlikely to repeat the damage done to the U.S. economy by the 1970 shutdown, which helped trigger a temporary recession. The auto industry today simply does not enjoy the commanding position in the economy that it had 14 years ago. During the intervening years, banking, retailing and other service industries, plus the new high-tech fields of semiconductors and computers, have become more important, and foreign manufacturers now hold 23% of the U.S. market, vs. 15% in 1970. One American worker in six was employed...
...begin bombing in five minutes, he little suspected that his off-the-cuff remark would bring such a storm of protest. If many Americans had already forgotten, the rest of the world was still talking about a gaffe that seemed to reinforce the worst stereotypes of Reagan as the trigger-happy cowboy President. Even to many in the U.S., the President's rhetoric of late has lapsed into the stark, sometimes reckless-sounding anti-Sovietism that he indulged in early in his Administration and later toned down under criticism...