Word: triggers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger-happy troops would have done if they had been angered by the results of Uganda's first election in 18 years...
...substantial element of tension into the crisis. Said a West German Foreign Ministry specialist: "A month ago, even two weeks ago, an argument over the Warsaw court's decision not to register the farmers as an independent union would not have been so risky. But now a hair-trigger situation exists...
...STALKS JACKIE O.). Smarmy talk-show hosts fawn on him, paperback offers and film rights proliferate, and Lonnie makes big bad bawdy whoopee with Miss America. Christine Baranski zeroes in on this character's vacuous dedication and chews her words like stale gum. Griffin Dunne has a sensitive trigger finger on his role throughout...
Perhaps the most severe reservation held by Harvard is the possibility of a chain reaction. If District 65 is victorious, its success may trigger other Harvard clerical and technical employees to start a unionizing drive of their own. Such a campaign could result in a bargaining unit seven to eight times larger than the University's biggest union--the Harvard University Employees Representatives Association, which has only 550 members...
...case promises to linger on no matter what the Justice Department decides to do. Greensboro officials, already upset because their city served as a battleground for those they view as "outsiders," were afraid that the decision will only spark further trouble. The verdicts did not trigger the rioting that officials feared, but more than 1,500 people in Guilford and Durham counties participated in peaceful demonstrations to "express citizens' concerns" over the acquittals. In the only violent reaction, a gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road...