Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was an instant where I thought I felt the muzzle of the gun in my stomach," she testified, describing the fatal struggle on his bed that rainy night. "I pulled the trigger. I thought: 'My God, that didn't hurt at all. I should have died a long time ago.' " But it was Tarnower, not she, who was mortally wounded...
...teeth was knocked out. Most of the hostages were allowed 20-minute walks outside their rooms once a week without harassment, but Jerry Miele, 42, a communications officer, had to beg for his walk. When he did get out, a guard kept playing with the trigger of an automatic weapon pointed at Miele's chest...
...bankruptcy in some countries. Attempts to curb its excesses are beginning to cause political disruption and even social unrest. In France and Britain, labor unions and other groups have demonstrated against cutbacks in medical and education benefits. In Belgium and The Netherlands, attempts to slash welfare spending have helped trigger Cabinet crises, along with protests involving workers, students, doctors and even pharmacists. In Sweden, long a model of social consensus, unions and employers paralyzed the country last spring with nine days of work stoppages over wage claims that eventually forced the government to grant tax relief and companies to hike...
Bigotry Pulled the Trigger...
...Greeks to penetrate Troy, it helps an interloper get into forbidden recesses of a computer. The mischiefmaker slyly slips some extra commands into a computer program (the instructions by which the machine performs a given task). Then when another programmer with higher clearance runs the program, he will unwittingly trigger the covert instructions. These unlock the guarded areas, just as the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then transfer money to his own account, steal private information or sabotage the system itself. Other colorfully named ploys: superzapping (penetrating a computer by activating...