Word: catalystic
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...analysis makes no specific recommendations on what facilities Harvard should provide for leave-takers. According to Nancy Lindsay, a research assistant at the OIRE and author of the study, the purpose of the report is to act as a "catalyst to get things started...
...travels also made him aware of the disfavor felt toward the military regime and the need to bring farmers and laborers into the National Assembly. Since last October's student revolt, the King has distinguished himself as an adroit political operator, and he has acted as a catalyst for change." Speaking at the Turf Club to the delegates to the convention, Bhumibol declared: "This is the beginning of democracy...
...some, the affair might seem a bit ridiculous, but it was strong enough to survive many storms. Social critics might, and regularly did damn the high-powered car as a strangler of cities, fouler of the air and catalyst of a blighted landscape of junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance...
...explanation still rings false. The crisis would be here even if it weren't for the fact that the Arabs had picked up a few ungentlemanly American tricks. Even Nixon's handpicked energy czar, William Simon, says that the Arab embargo is only a convenient focal point, a catalyst that has speeded things up a bit but not changed the basic picture. Or as Frank Ikard, president of the conservative American Petroleum Institute, put it: "We are going to be short of energy for our homes, our industries and our transportation this winter, next winter and the winter after that...
Europeans have often been vexed before by their dependence on the U.S., but never quite so annoyed as to agree on common policies. A combination of events-the Middle East war, the oil shortage, detente and what Europeans consider American arrogance-may, however, be the catalyst that brings unity. "We have lost a decade in European unity," says an aide to French President Georges Pompidou. "But because of the Middle East war we are moving once again. Europe has always advanced only in crises and never in calm. Copenhagen will be the summit of truth to see whether...