Word: impetus
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...then James Dean appears on television during the "O what rogue and peasant slave am I" speech". Where did the impetus to turn Hamlet into a filmmaker come from...
This loss of detail--the loss of the long form--takes with it our impetus towards consistency. After enough sections and response papers we can all be opinionated, or at least appropriately melodramatic, for 800 words or 55 minutes, whichever comes first. But is their continuity between these spurts of eloquence? Does a clear voice emerge and transcend? Or is everything reduced to a comic strip box--a snapshot with the most interesting pieces of life squished into the inked borders...
American neighborhoods populated primarily by blacks and Hispanics have not yet reached the return rates of the nation's primarily white communities, but they may be well on their way - white localities' response numbers dropped this year, while minorities' rates rose. While the precise impetus for the upswing is unclear, this year's strong returns from Hispanics and blacks can probably be traced in part to the Census Bureau's aggressive, targeted advertising campaigns, as well as to grassroots encouragement to "get out there and be counted" or risk losing government spending. The Times reports that census officials are breathing...
...frequent career shifts are impetus behind her determination to make preparing undergraduates for the future her platform...
...complete and accurate headcount: If we don't define ourselves, the government will do it for us. The idea of a bunch of old white guys sitting around the Capitol Building doling out money for programs according to their warped idea of who is an American should provide adequate impetus for even the most private person to rush out and solicit a census form...