Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several Stanford hospital administrators have contended that the lack of such "an agreement could trigger a military takeover of the hospital during a crisis, according to the Daily. So far, 366 civilian hospitals across the country have committed a total of 30,932 beds under the contingency plan...
Meanwhile, the Shah wanted to come to the U.S., but embassy officials in Tehran were wary. "For us now to give refuge to the Shah would almost certainly trigger massive demonstrations against our embassy," Laingen cabled to Washington in July. "With luck, they may stop at that, without a physical assault. But there could be no assurance of that...
Then came the Reagan revolution. As part of its budget-cutting efforts, the Administration last August abolished the national unemployment trigger that provided an additional 13 weeks of benefits, but kept the individual state triggers intact. It is estimated that 640,000 workers will not get such payments during fiscal year 1982, for a savings to the Government of $690 million. Also stopped were unemployment benefits for servicemen who choose not to reenlist. The rationale was that military service during peacetime is an occupation, and those who leave voluntarily are in effect quitting their jobs. Finally, the budget cuts virtually...
...states must raise their own trigger rates of unemployment that make the jobless eligible for 13 extra weeks of benefits by one percentage point, from 4% to 5%. In addition, new regulations will also require that any person drawing extended benefits must have worked at least 20 weeks during the previous year before losing his job; there is no such minimum requirement now. The logic behind these reductions in unemployment benefits was simple enough: the employer taxes that pay for them no longer cover the costs...
...standing next to a pup tent pitched in the middle of the room. Inside the tent, chained to a cot, was a shoeless, bearded man in a dark blue jogging suit. Savasta was holding a silencer-equipped pistol to the man's head. Before Savasta could pull the trigger, however, a commando hit him from behind with the butt of his machine gun and knocked him to the floor...