Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado or simply trigger the Atoll by accident? Or did he perhaps believe that, as had happened at least once before, in 1973, the American planes would not return fire...
...able to pick up and handle living tidal organisms such as horseshoe crabs, moon snails and sand dollars. The 13-ft.-high viewing windows of two gigantic "race track" tanks, one atop the other, reveal the dark worlds of an Atlantic coral reef and the deep sea. Scores of trigger fish, tiger fish, parrot fish, grunts and blow fish swim in a traffic jam of color through the coral reef. Below, sea turtles and rays settle into the simulated depths, sometimes with understandable uneasiness, as eight species of shark hover near...
...immediate trigger for European anxieties about NATO is the TNF question-Theater Nuclear Forces. In December 1979, NATO members agreed to the deployment on the Continent of 572 U.S. Pershing II missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles, GLCMS or Glickums. These would be capable of reaching all of Eastern Europe and some of western Russia. These weapons were to counterbalance the SS-20s, which the Soviets had begun targeting on Western Europe. Without some such force, there would be a wide gap in the NATO arsenal between "tactical" or battlefield nuclear weapons, and the intercontinental weapons. The NATO TNF will...
...four specific patriots--James Otis, John Adams, Joseph Hawley and Josiah Quincy--to rebel against the king. For an historian seeking to identify the roots of rebellion, they are not a surprising group: inevitably, they all had problems with their fathers, or father-figures, early in life--the sure trigger to a Pavlovian response from a Freud-fancier. But Shaw pursues the issue with considerable sophistication. The patriots. Shaw believes, saw Hutchinson as the perverter of the king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend Duties and Tea Act--to Hutchinson...
...blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts of the body, the prostaglandins trigger additional discomfort...