He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

The British departure in 1976 at the height of the Cold War almost immediately triggered foreign speculation about the future of the air base.

The gunshots triggered an almost immediate response by the white men, many of whom returned fire on the blacks, who continued firing back at the whites.

The loss of agricultural expertise also triggered a loss of agricultural financing and market confidence which made recovery almost impossible.

The building had to be almost entirely rebuilt in 1919-1920, following the devastating 1908 earthquake, and again in 1943, after a fire triggered by Allied bombings.

On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with Caroline Kennedy, who was visiting them at their Holland Park home, in Kensington, west London, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house ; the bomb exploded killing a noted cancer researcher, Gordon Hamilton-Fairley.

Even in Piedmont, King Vittorio Emanuele I, undecided what to do, abdicated in favor of his brother Charles Felix of Sardinia, who asked Austria to intervene militarily: April 8, the Hapsburg army defeated the rebels and the uprisings of 1820-1821, triggered almost entirely by the Carbonari, ended up in a total failure.

His childhood trauma stemmed from his rapid-fire insults being compulsive and almost subconsciously triggered.

This, alongside with Peter's role as Spider-Man, triggered a growing divide and she briefly flirted with an actor called Jason Jermome, which almost tempted her into a secret affair after he kissed her twice ; but she eventually rejected his advances.

Nevertheless the inexperience of the Russian Baltic Fleet almost triggered a war between Russia and Great Britain as it sailed through the North Sea.

Nagpur Police were trying to disperse almost 50000 Gowari protesters using baton charge but it created panic and triggered stampede amongst protesters.

True vertigo can be triggered by almost any type of movement ( e. g. standing up, sitting down, walking ) or change in visual perspective ( e. g. squatting down, walking up or down stairs, looking out of the window of a moving car or train ).

Originally published in the UK as Two Hours to Doom – with George using the pseudonym " Peter Bryant " ( Bryan Peters for the French translation, 120 minutes pour sauver le monde ) – the novel deals with the apocalyptic threat of nuclear war and the almost absurd ease with which it can be triggered.

At the time, the Mobro 4000 incident was widely cited by environmentalists and the media as emblematic of the solid-waste disposal crisis in the United States due to a shortage of landfill space: almost 3, 000 municipal landfills had closed between 1982 and 1987, It triggered much national public discussion about waste disposal, and may have been a factor in increased recycling rates in the late 1980s and after.

The disease is usually triggered by a condition that causes immune system activity that does not stop as it should, but the trigger is almost certainly not the cause in most cases.

The outages were almost always triggered by unusually hot temperatures during the summer, which causes a surge in demand due to heavy use of air conditioning.

A Soviet invasion of Canada would almost certainly have triggered war, and both the U. S. and Canada planned for such scenarios actively and intensively -- not because the Soviets were thought to have independent, direct belligerence towards Canada, but because of the manifest necessity to use Canada, in a Soviet-U. S. post-Cold War wartime scenario.

Landing in New York City, almost completely deserted above ground because of a city-wide disaster drill, the Duchy's invading " army " ( composed of the Field Marshal Tully Bascomb, three men-at-arms, and twenty longbowmen ) wanders to a top secret government lab and unintentionally captures the " Q-bomb " ( a prototype doomsday device that could destroy the world if triggered ) and its maker, Dr. Kokintz.

It is usually assumed that a kritikal link, unlike a disadvantage link, need not be unique ; that is, the team putting forward the kritik ( almost always the negative ) need not prove that the impacts claimed by the argument could not be triggered by the status quo — that the affirmative does not uniquely lead to the impact.

The priorities of New Labour have, over the past decade or so, triggered an almost unprecedented haemorrhaging of active members from the Party.

They finally broke up early in 2004 because of " irreconcilable differences and because the two found it almost impossible to make compromises " which partly triggered public speculation that some of the songs in the album are in reference to his personal struggle.

During the course of events leading up to the death of serial killer Howard Epps, Zack was almost killed when he unwittingly triggered a pressure sensor tied to a bomb affixed to the headless body of Caroline Epps, only to be saved by Booth.

After a communist uprising took control over Bavaria in the years following World War I, the state government fled to Bamberg and stayed there for almost two years before the Bavarian capital of Munich was retaken by Freikorps units ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ).

This was the second Soviet EVA, and it would be almost another nine years before the Soviets performed their third.

* 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.

The gravest environmental threat to Kazakhstan comes from radiation, especially in the Semey ( Semipalatinsk ) region of the northeast, where the Soviet Union tested almost 500 nuclear weapons, 116 of them above ground.

Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.

Khadamat-e Aetela ' at-e Dawlati, almost always known by its acronym KHAD ( or KhAD ), is the main security agency and intelligence agency of Afghanistan, and also served as the secret police during the Soviet occupation.

Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of GDP, disappeared almost overnight in 1990 – 91, at the time of the Collapse of the Soviet Union ( 1985 – 1991 ).

* 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.

State administrations were liquidated and replaced by Soviet cadres, in which 34, 250 Latvians, 75, 000 Lithuanians and almost 60, 000 Estonians were deported or killed.

This is the official total dead, but other estimates give the number of total dead up to almost 11 million men, including 7. 7 million killed or missing in action and 2. 6 million POW dead ( out of 5. 2 million total POWs ), plus 400, 000 paramilitary and Soviet partisan losses.

The invasion reached an abrupt end with the Soviet Union's sudden shift of support to Ethiopia, followed by almost the entire communist world siding with the latter.

In the 1920s and 1930s, almost 20, 000 White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai.

By limiting outside influences, these policies would gradually cause almost complete isolation of Soviet composers from the rest of the world.

The operation of the Soviet Union under Stalinism was almost entirely undemocratic, vesting absolute power into unelected bureaucrats.

As the Soviet Union under Stalin manifested itself as a strong centralized authoritarian state, Stalinism and libertarian socialism are almost directly opposed.

Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Lwów came under the control of the Soviet Union for almost two years.

During Soviet times the population of Tartu almost doubled from 57, 000 to 100, 000, in large part due to mass immigration from other areas of the Soviet Union.

A gift from the Soviet Union to the people of Poland, the tower was constructed, using Soviet plans, almost entirely by 3500 workers from the Soviet Union, of whom 16 died in accidents during the construction.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people between 1941 and 1945, almost half of all World War II casualties | World War II deaths.