Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alvarez testified that he fired in self-defense when Johnson, who had a .22-cal. handgun tucked under a sweater, made "a sudden move." Prosecutors argued that Alvarez was never in danger and used a revolver with a hair trigger...
...feet of the young trigger-happy recruits...
...East-West relations. Behind the sharp differences over defense strategy and arms control lies a parallel dispute over the alliance's posture toward the Soviet Union. Too many Europeans accept the caricature of a U.S. run by trigger-happy cowboys whose belligerence has provoked Soviet intransigence. Many Americans, on the other hand, consider such European notions naive and believe that together with the pacifist and neutralist demonstrations, they
...Court ruling limiting a federal law barring sex discrimination in education has reopened the issue of women in college athletics. Although the ruling is not expected to affect Harvard or other Ivy League schools that grant roughly equal funding to men's and women's sports, the decision could trigger setbacks for women's athletics elsewhere...
Though such experimenting is sure to trigger debate, scientists point to practical benefits: it should make it easier to rear embryos of endangered species in the wombs of other species or even create hybrids as valuable as the indomitable mule...