Word: impetuses
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Complex and ingrained social trends must be examined to understand the cause of these desperate problems. The most obvious impetus for anorexia is the perception among women that they must be thin to be attractive to the opposite sex. Certainly, society perpetuates this belief...
...impetus for the latest round of name-calling is the recently released draft of Russia's new constitution. The document was put together by Yeltsin and his staff, and it shows...
Today westerns are back, guns blazing. The immediate impetus is a series of unexpected hits: CBS's high-rated 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove, based on Larry McMurtry's novel; the popular frontier series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; and a pair of Oscar-winning films, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. They have been more than enough to set off a modern Hollywood version of the Oklahoma land rush...
...impetus [for the proposal] comes both from the student side and the faculty side," Buell said, "From the student side it is clear that there is an increasing number of students interested in this form of inquiry. And on the faculty side, there are a greater number of faculty interested in the area than several years...
Zack R. Sung '96, one of the builders who often comes to the rescue, says the impetus for the group was strengthened last year after a number of shows "became overwhelmed with sets that they just couldn't build by the deadlines...