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...local law-enforcement programs, surplus property to increase state prison space, procedures for police to share in forfeited criminal assets, and as much as $100 million to help compensate victims. Perhaps most important, past experience has shown that such landmark federal legislation will serve as a model and a catalyst for powerful anticrime reform in the 50 states...
With his pass-catching and running, he's been the catalyst in leading Harvard to a run for the Ivy title...
Last week that apathy vanished. The catalyst was dramatic television footage, shot by a BBC team and aired in the U.S. by NBC, that showed grim scenes of emaciated children and rows of corpses laid out on the cracked Ethiopian plain. Within hours, contributions from individual American citizens began pouring in to such relief agencies as Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam America and Grassroots International. All have been issuing warnings of the impending disaster in Africa for years. The U.S. Government added $10 million to the $35 million already allotted for food aid to the beleaguered country, doubling last year...
...like a witches brew," Glen Miller, a graduate student in Cooper's laboratory, says. "We make a model of what we think are the active parts and we design the catalyst...
...rock and roll can provide a blueprint for living. Most pop criticism and documentary work since the '60s approach bands like the Stones from this perspective. Yet, if rock and pop in the '80s has shown anything, it is that rock is more a reflection of society than a catalyst for change. As recent Stones records have shown, the more closely music mimics the whims of the record-buying public, the greater the chance that the music will be successful. Rock is a commodity, just like movies, books, TV, or even religion--it is one in an endless number...