Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador to deteriorate into chaos. The U.S. would be perceived as having abandoned the government, making the guerrillas seem to be a far more formidable force than they really are. Feeling betrayed, the government might cancel any further attempts at land reform and remove any restrictions on its trigger-happy troops, leading to even greater violations of human rights. In that bloody atmosphere, sympathy for the guerrillas might grow, and hopes for the very dialogue that opponents of the funding want to promote would be doomed. If Congress rejects the aid request, contends a State Department official, any attempt...
...from its current depressed level of less than 15 million barrels daily to within its physical production capacity of about 30 million barrels daily. It would then take only a small disruption in supplies, say in the winter of 1986 or-equally important-an expectation of impending shortages, to trigger a new round of panic buying and stock-piling by worried buyers. This would kick up oil prices, much as have occurred in the 1973-74 and again in the 1979-80 oil crises. The world price of oil could double within six months of the disruption...
Ironically, by encouraging complacency about the future availability and price of oil; those who now pronounce the oil crisis and by extension OPEC dead, may help trigger the very out come they so casually dismiss...
...Persian Gulf neighbors had issued an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC: unless a deal was struck within seven days, the gulf nations said, they would slash their oil prices to as low as $27 per bbl., $7 below the official OPEC price of $34. Such a move could trigger an all-out price war that would threaten OPEC's survival...
Both viral and genetic approaches to cancer research share one flaw--they attack not the cause of cancer but its mechanism. Even proponents of genetic and viral theories concede that something external must trigger malignant cell growth. These researchers accept the existence of cancer-causing substances in the environment as a given, and devote their efforts to reversing the cancer cycle once it has started--not preventing it from starting. Rather than investigating whether cigarettes, saccharin, asbestos or other hazards should in fact be banned--or going further and lobbying to ban them--such researchers seem to feel helpless...