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  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (418816, 'The Parent Trigger: New Leverage for Parents', 'Part of a huge reform package signed into California state law by Governor Schwarzenegger last Thursday, the \ "Parent Trigger\" calls for districts to turn failing schools around by aggressive means - from firing staff to closing schools.

    Bill Jackson: The Parent Trigger: New Leverage for Parents 2010

  • "Trigger" is just corporate code for doing everything they can to wait until a more favorable congress gets in and wipes out reform.

    Nelson expresses support for using trigger on public insurance 2009

  • Dry needle therapy, which is formally known as Trigger Point Dry needling TDN, is a technique that uses small monofilament needles to treat trigger points within muscles.

    Training Center: Explaining dry needle therapy 2011

  • Trigger is a great word for this idea, because what it basically is going to mean for ordinary uninsured people is that some of us are going to have to die unnecessarily before a public option can be considered.

    Nelson expresses support for using trigger on public insurance 2009

  • The Parent Trigger is a recognition of the fact that parents are the only people in public education without a conflict of interest -- the only people who care only about their children -- yet they are the only people with no power to bring change.

    Ben Austin: The Wait is Over Ben Austin 2010

  • Trigger is not an option if it gives insurance companies, health care entities four or five years to straighten up their acts.

    Baucus floats compromise on health care 2009

  • The name Trigger was chosen by Rogers 'sidekick, Smiley Burnette, who was struck by the horse's quick reaction time.

    NY Post: News JEREMY OLSHAN 2010

  • At one point, he set down his worn, trusty guitar he calls Trigger, and approached a blonde woman in the front row.

    The Corning Leader Homepage RSS 2009

  • My conversion came about, quite accidentally, as a result of watching a TV series called Trigger Happy TV, which had a fantastic musical soundtrack chosen by the show's creator Dom Joly.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Clive Shepherd 2007

  • My conversion came about, quite accidentally, as a result of watching a TV series called Trigger Happy TV, which had a fantastic musical soundtrack chosen by the show's creator Dom Joly.

    Net, blogs and rock 'n' roll Clive Shepherd 2007

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