Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aims to put them in the very spots which were deemed too unsafe in the first place. Sitting ducks, these new missiles will rest in antiquated immobile silos making a potential first strike advantageous, thereby reducing the possibility of retaliation. This inherently dangerous and destabilizing system promotes a "hair trigger" mentality. Each side lives ready and poised at the button hoping to gain the upper hand by striking first. During House debate last week, Rep. Joseph P. Addabb pointed out regarding the MX. "If a missile is vulnerable you're not going to leave it to be struck down...
...them for more than a century. At home, members of Congress and ordinary citizens alike wondered what had prompted President Reagan to take such drastic action against a tiny island. Coming only two days after the death of at least 229 Marines in Beirut, the move was sure to trigger a new debate on whether the Administration is increasingly relying on force as a complement to, if not a substitute for, diplomacy...
...This is enough'?" Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed: "We don't want another pro-Castro Marxist government down there." Senate Democrats were far harsher. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts called the invasion "Reagan's new interventionism," Thomas Eagleton of Missouri said it represented "a trigger-happy foreign policy," and New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted: "I don't know that you restore democracy at the point of a bayonet." House Democrats were initially more muted, with Speaker Tip O'Neill contending that criticism was inappropriate while the fighting was under way. But once...
Ronald Reagan has entered that hallowed ground. Some would suggest he got there through his own lack of understanding in Lebanon and his itchy trigger finger in Grenada. Right or wrong, he is there...
...heartening, was the solution Associate Dean for Housing Thomas L. Dingman '57 and some other officials came up with. Nothing that both students and the Cambridge fire department had become jaded and unresponsive to fire alarms--perhaps because the College had admitted that dust, lint and atmosphere fluctuation could trigger them--College officials moved quickly to reawaken students' sensitivity to possible fires. So it was that another series of noise-inspired evictions marked early mornings last week--not only in the afflicted Lowell, Dunster, Adams and parts of Quincy, but in all the Houses and the Yard, Fire drills...