Word: triggers
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...heard. It is not easily documentable with dates and places and simple sentences. It is a shadow that has followed Bush throughout his national prominence. It showed up again in the New Hampshire campaign, and in the squalid Nashua argument over who should or should not debate. That helped trigger some of the electoral doubts that engulfed Bush in the primary...
...diligent and in some ways more driven now than earlier." One cause of the high fail rate is a 1976 decision to alter the grading. Before, any student who answered 140 of the multiple-choice questions correctly passed automatically, no matter how bad his essays were; in 1976 the trigger figure for passing became 145. (In Pennsylvania, by contrast, the pass number is 135.) Then, last July, something strange happened in the essay portion: of the 60% who scored below 145 on the multiple-choice section, only 10% did well enough on the essays to pass the exam -far fewer...
...substance, known as slow reacting substance (SRS) of anaphylaxis, is a potent muscle-contractant. When foreign substances, such as insect venom, enter the body, antibodies trigger the release...
...rope for a church-government tugof war. Marcos will try to reap maximum exposure. The church under Sin's direction will try to steer the Vatican away from such exploitation and use the visit to close ranks among its own members. If Marcos oversteps his bounds, he may trigger a more severe church reaction. Several clergy fear the Marcos's may ask the Pope to conduct their daughter's wedding ceremony. One of Sin's closest advisers suggested that the Pope may visit political detainees to make a definitive statement. This would mark the cardinal's abandonment of any pretense...
...maximum of only $30,000 if it is found guilty under the two-year-old Indiana law allowing corporations to be charged with reckless homicide. No jail sentences are threatened because no individual was accused. Yet a guilty verdict could affect the 23 pending civil suits. It could also trigger a rash of criminal charges against other companies involved in product-safety disputes...