Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days in advance, and left in place, the lab's specialists adapted delicate seismographic probes used for oil exploration; activated by timers just before liftoff, the probes' circuits sense the rocket's vibrations and trigger the motor-driven cameras. "We do everything that a commercial lab does," notes Orth. "We have to be able to do anything and everything the company needs." Indeed, says TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin, "the Photo Lab really comes through for us. During the U.S. invasion of Grenada last October...
...vulnerable on foreign policy. Polls for the White House show a marked increase in the number of voters who are afraid of war, largely because of the icy state of relations with the Soviet Union, and Republican strategists worry about a revival of Reagan's 1980 image as "trigger happy." The vulnerability of the Marines in Lebanon is a sore point; 49% of the people questioned in last week's Times/CBS poll wanted them brought home, vs. only 35% in October. "If Lebanon is in no better shape during the campaign than it is today, that could be a real...
...Agrava commission was a blow to the government. Agrava confirmed that Balang's house had been staked out by people calling themselves CIS agents, and, in an act of considerable courage, she arranged protection for the witness. In his testimony, Balang questioned that Galman could have pulled the trigger. "I heard a shot, and when I looked back, the man in white [Aquino] was falling down," Balang recounted. "At that moment, I saw [Galman] just standing there parallel to Aquino, surrounded by members of the Aviation Security Command (AVSECOM). He was smiling. He was partly hidden, but the palms...
...LINES. After being hurt by the rise of cut-rate airlines, intercity bus companies were given new freedom last year to raise or lower fares. That helped trigger price wars between the two big carriers, Greyhound and Trailways. To trim costs, Greyhound asked that unionized drivers take a 9.5% pay cut and thereby provoked a strike that is now in its second month. Employees rejected a new wage offer last week, and Greyhound said it would continue its effort, started three weeks ago, to rebuild service with nonunion drivers...
...missiles in West Germany. Of the two new prospective American weapons, the Soviets were more worried about the Pershing Us, since they could reach targets in the U.S.S.R. much more quickly than could cruise missiles. Also, the Soviets have an abiding fear of German fingers anywhere near the nuclear trigger...