Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly every segment of the nation's business shared in the advance, thanks chiefly to a larger-than-expected third-quarter growth in the total output of U.S. goods and services ($11 billion v. an anticipated $9.5 billion). Remarkably, this gain was made without any substantial impetus from the Viet Nam war; military spending now equals only 8.6% of the gross national product, 1% less than three years...
...favor of conservation rather than reformation, it seems unlikely that this would forestall even more radical change for long. Windows opened in a gale are not easily shut and are easily reopened. Paul may or may not choose to be a truly postconciliar Pope. But whatever he chooses, the impetus to complete the reformation is already there in the records of Vatican II, waiting for another council, or another John. Or another Luther...
...major impetus for this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...
Less than half the degree candidates showed for a streamlined Class Day. It lasted barely an hour. Robert F. Wagner Jr. '65 delivered a brief W. Jamesian oration in which he attributed collegiate ferment to a dearth of "adventure" on American campuses. Wegner lauded protest and demonstration as an impetus to wider reflection about "vital issues" and as a healthy expression of student dissatisfaction...
...part, Erhard, though gratified, made it plain that the chat might not be as pleasant for the general as their last, where De Gaulle airily promised new impetus to European integration, on which he has since reneged. Erhard intends to talk tough-and pointedly disclosed at week's end that before he saw De Gaulle he was going to the U.S. for a chat with Lyndon Johnson...