Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine out of ten cases. Worn only at night, the gadgets have two electrodes that are placed on the patient's back over the convex side of the spinal curve. An implantable model has three electrodes that are buried under the skin. A bedside transmitter is used to trigger a pulsing current five or six times a minute. This stimulates muscle contractions that gradually pull the spine into line. Though the devices are still experimental, they appear to be as effective as bracing. Reports Boston Orthopedist John Emans: "Patients are delighted because they can look and act like other...
...main reason for the growth of the movement is increasing concern that political leaders of both superpowers?especially since the shelving of the SALT II treaty in 1980 and the failure to resume talks since then?have moved, with mutual belligerence, toward a direct confrontation that could trigger a nuclear war. Those worries were, in a sense, symbolized by a rhetorical exchange between Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev last week that probably did more to augment superpower tensions than to ease them. Speaking to the 17th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, the medal-bedecked Soviet leader announced that Moscow...
...Europe against what many there see as the clear and present danger of nuclear war on the Continent. While ostensibly aimed at both superpowers, the political agitation in Western Europe has a distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend as Britain's former Prime Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between the way America...
Many, perhaps most, proponents of a quick settlement argue that a chancy compromise is better than a sure loss-that the longer fighting continues, the more likely the left is to win. Supporters further warn that if the militant right-wingers gain power at the polls, they may trigger an even more brutal civil war of resistance. Underlying these arguments is a widespread liberal presumption that the rebels are-in the phrase of TV Actor Edward Asner's protest group, Medical Aid for El Salvador-"the most representative group in the country...
Other voices, however, are beginning to demand what to many bankers is unthinkable: declare Poland in default. That would probably trigger a worldwide rush to seize Polish assets located outside the country. It could also push the international banking system toward chaos...