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Ellwood’s move could provide a new impetus for College administrators to channel budget funds toward wind energy purchases...
...National Government were obliged to take Sterling off gold (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Their next bold policy, after winning a general election in which they asked for a "free hand," was to scrap historic Free Trade and clap on protective tariffs which have given all British activities tremendous impetus. Today the Empire has happy sensations of lifting itself by its own bootstraps rapidly out of Depression...
...Assassination of Richard Nixon serves as a perfect example of how politics has seeped into all corners of the cinema—even in places where there was no such intention. Mueller wrote the film many years ago after graduating from Tufts. As he explained, the impetus for writing the film was reading of a shooting in San Diego. He wanted to explore “the line a person crosses that causes them to lose empathy for their fellow man.” He began researching assassins and created the story of a dejected man who talked into tape...
Were one to be elected in the near future, an undergraduate councilor from Harvard wouldn’t have to look hard for issues to address. Even given the added impetus of a series of sexual assaults over the past year, the city government has been excruciatingly slow in making safety on the Cambridge Common a priority. While poor lighting and a lack of emergency callboxes make a walk through the park unnecessarily dangerous, not even the rash of gropings over the past year could convince Cambridge to shell out the cash for security upgrades. The UC maintains an official...
Event organizers cited curiosity about the history of FOP as their impetus for planning the celebration...