This secondary sequence would trigger a fast-acting neuro-destructive disease that produced memory loss and, eventually, death.
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And the metaphor is apt because the trigger -- well-designed triggers create a huge incentive for Congress not to pull them.
But nobody from Congo's equally trigger-happy pro-government forces is in the dock.
Now some doctors seem ready to revolt against the resulting hair-trigger safety environment--even as the debate about Vioxx and drugs like it rages on.
But the first country to send a missile, even a non-nuclear one, could trigger a tit-for-tat set of reprisals that both sides could find hard to stop.
The interbank market tried in vain to trigger stop-losses sub-1.3460, ran smack into central bank support, got themselves short and now have been chasing the EUR higher ever since.
Numerous market participants have told me that it is fear of that being the trigger - the detonator more like - of the unexploded mass of bad debt in Spain that is haunting them.
The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.
Bergman strips away politics to bare the mechanisms of power, including physical violence, media propaganda, and the mind games that turn lovers into survivors pitted against each other in hair-trigger life-and-death decisions, shifting alliances, and perilous collaborations.
"The situation in Italy can be extrapolated to carry larger significance in Europe, but the reality is that the Continent's financial system is much more stable than when regional political events could trigger a panic-induced sell-off, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager at Chibagin Asset Management.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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The first is the fiscal cliff, which is extremely time-sensitive and has to do with December 31st deadlines that trigger, if Congress doesn't act, substantial tax increases for everyone, including the middle class, and that trigger across-the-board spending cuts, the combination of which would, by many estimates, not be very good for the economy.
It also avoids too-clever-by-half trigger mechanisms and the opposite pitfall of a laborious legal process.
However, the 10% trigger threshold - tailoured for Mr Icahn - is unusually low.
Carr, who spent five years studying bank robberies and interviewing crooks, argues that a warm greeting to a would-be robber eliminates psychological "trigger points"--confidence, anonymity, control over his fear--that the robber needs to go ahead with the crime.
Rather, when trigger-happy lawmakers insert themselves into fast-moving technology markets, the law that gets invoked more often than not is the law of unintended consequences.
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My guess, though, is that the first tangible steps towards this radical left-wing social experimentation with the only military America has - an all-volunteer one, at that - will trigger a massive backlash against the Administration and its allies on Capitol Hill.
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However, the scientists have suggested that encoding genes - those that can trigger disease - could also be affected.
While the Maestro's protestations won't eradicate the bear market from his legacy, they might--just might--trigger a badly needed debate on the proper role of the Federal Reserve and what guideposts it should use in conducting monetary policy.
How else did news channels begin predicting that an MP at the debate - ahead of the still-born vote - would actually trigger off chaos at least an hour before he actually did so?
The film wears its anti-imperialist, anti-corporate sentiments on its sleeve (Stephen Lang's trigger-happy military commander spouts "war on terror" slogans to hammer home the point).
In addition, some of the feedback we got from customers was that the D70 has a small optional ML-L3 infrared remote trigger, a push-button you can use to trigger the camera.
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In recent years, evidence has built that the immune system can sometimes attack and kill cancer cells--sometimes--but that cancer finds ways to fight back and evade or blunt the attack. (See "Cancer Miracles") For some people with advanced cancer, ipilimumab may be just enough to trigger a full-fledged anti-tumor attack.
That is because a default would trigger the bond-insurance contracts called credit-default swaps (CDSs).
We also continue to see downside risks as the recent negative sales trend could accelerate and the accumulation of product failures could trigger major write-offs and marketing extra-costs.
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Other things being equal, Blomquist says, you should stay away from a fund with hair-trigger stock-picking.
It'd be hugely valuable to have the entire bottom of the screen act as a trigger, so you can focus on what's downrange of the lens instead of how to direct your fingernail to land on the speck-of-a-button that'll trigger the shutter.
The oral polio vaccine can - in very rare cases - trigger polio.
They found that watching the pain suffered by a partner was enough to trigger activity in some - but not all - of the brain's pain centres.
When it finalizes its proposed rule, CMS should listen to Medicare experts and especially to the concerns of patient and physician groups who say that reinstating the lower-level hemoglobin trigger point of 10 will guard against under-treatment of anemia for dialysis patients.
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