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What caused this reversal? The main impetus was violence. In 1966 and 1967, hundreds of riots exploded in cities across America, culminating in the violence following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. The Kerner Commission, appointed to discover the roots of these riots, concluded that the government had to implement nothing less than extraordinary measures to improve the lot and quell the growing resentment of Blacks. The reported warned of "the feelings of desperation and anger which breed civil disorders...
Simpson's book publishes about 100 of the 300,000 pieces of mail he says he has received in jail. The figure 300,000 is cited as the impetus for commencing the book last Nov. 1, as well as the amount of mail Simpson has received so far; it is but one indication of how closely not to read. Then, too, Chapter 1 is titled, ``I Always Answer My Mail,'' and in Chapter 5, Simpson reflects, ``Now that I look back and think about it, I was never a big letter writer.'' Judging from the sloppiness of the epistolary effort...
...Richard Steen] was the motivating force behind the student on-line directory project and he was also very much the impetus on the on-line facebook," said Eugene E. Kim '96, president of the Harvard Computer Society...
...course, the impetus behind this change is not some radical demand by the house governments for more control over their constituents' lives. (Would that it were so.) The reality is more mundane: the usual site for registration, Memorial Hall, is still under construction. And other sites, such as Sever Hall (which was used for fall registration), will be holding classes...
There was a second impetus to interest-group growth: in the 1960s, just as the technology of computerized direct mail was emerging, a proliferation of government programs created fresh issues to get interested in. Combined, the two factors were explosive. The American Association of Retired Persons, founded in 1958, did its first lobbying in 1965 with the arrival of Medicare. Over the next 25 years, its membership grew from a million to more than 30 million. Today it sends out 50 million pieces of mail a year. And when its members talk -- especially about Medicare or Social Security -- Congress listens...