Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart of Carter's program is a revival of the trigger price mechanism (T.P.M.), which was adopted more than two years ago to protect U.S. producers against competition from low-priced foreign products. If imports enter this country at less than the minimum or trigger price, an antidumping investigation is launched. The trigger price is based on the cost of production in Japan, which has the world's most efficient steel factories. In the past, the steel industry has complained that the T.P.M. was inadequately enforced and set too low, thus allowing cheap imports. It also accused...
...They only thing that will trigger the removal permit ordinance is if the landlord takes the unit off the rental market," Sullivan said, adding that landlords attempt to skirt the law by selling the units to "investors" who serve as "dummy owners" for the actual occupants...
Carter blitzes Reagan with charges he is trigger-happy...
...from an impressive 75% to 66%, and his perceived competency in foreign affairs has slipped from 72% to 63%. The Californian still worries voters on a basic level: 54% of those surveyed feel that he often does not get his facts straight, and 48% fret that he may be "trigger happy...
...wealthy districts. Apparent reason: the well-off elderly were not only healthier to begin with, but better supplied with fans, air conditioners and other aids to keep body temperatures below the 105° F (40.6° C) or so that helps trigger heat stroke...