The word ``trigger'' is not used, but if you look in function 920 of the document--I do not have it before me, I will have it shortly--you will see a series of numbers, and in those series of numbers the trigger is spelled out in actual numbers. So the effect of the trigger is spelled out in function 920, and that is what we are addressing.
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