Word: triggers
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...most vulgar and least creative level, this preoccupation has surfaced in a slew of war-fever songs, spearheaded by Charlie Daniels' trigger-happy redneck anthem, "In America," and including "Bomb Iran"--a remake of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" that made the rounds of local radio stations last spring. Such songs are the contemporary analogues to the Hearst newspapers' "Remember the Maine" campaigns, somewhat less strident but equally irresponsible...
...Puget Sound and favored restricting log exports so that the wood could be processed within the state, thereby creating additional jobs; Spellman backed the pipeline and supported the exports. McDermott, a psychiatrist by profession, admitted that projected budget deficits over the next two years (up to $1 billion) might trigger higher taxes, while Spellman pledged a balanced budget. During one debate, Spellman brandished a waffle to illustrate his charge that McDermott vacillated on the issues. Outspending his rival $1.2 million to $600,000, Spellman asked in a newspaper ad: "Do you want a liberal psychiatrist as your Governor?" Washingtonians answered...
...steel crisis exists and is getting worse in every respect-orders, costs, profits." So said Viscount Etienne Davignon, the European Community industrial affairs commissioner. Other leading industrial nations are also feeling the worldwide steel crisis. The U.S. last month reintroduced the trigger price mechanism to protect the domestic industry against cheap imports that were undercutting U.S. prices. American steel output in the first ten months of the year was 22% below the same level of 1979, and the industry has laid off 86,000 steel-production workers, almost one-quarter of its labor force, in the past year. Japanese steel...
Play a little game around Soldiers Field sometime. Word association. The trigger words are "Harvard women's soccer." And the response? Well, it's a pretty good bet that nine out of ten people answer with "Sue St. Louis." Maybe even...
...United States should fear Reagan because of his "total lack of judgment and reliance on people who are trigger-happy," James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman fellowships, said. He added, however, that he believes the president-elect's victory may have a silver lining: "Fighting Carter was like punching pillows--now we really have clear-cut evil to deal with...