Word: impetuses
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...last spring for the cause of their programs. While they risked a loss of favor in the Department of Athletics, the coaches were vehement and frank. At the very least, their efforts raised awareness about a serious and long-existing problem; quite possibly, they could have provided the impetus for these new donations...
...narrative gets richer. A decade ago, Diller brilliantly ran Paramount under Martin Davis, and the antipathy today is intense and mutual, although not, according to two entertainment power brokers close to Diller, an important impetus for the current takeover attempt -- just a "cherry on the sundae," says...
...trouble with this kind of approach is that first isn't always best. The history of American art abounds in artists who developed late and did their best work long after the movements they were first associated with had lost their impetus. Stuart Davis, for instance, was a far better painter in the 1930s than in the 1920s. The full unfolding of Robert Motherwell's talent, particularly in collage, happened after the prime years of Abstract Expressionism, and the same is true of Lee Krasner. (Not that it matters to this show, which includes neither of them...
...specific impetus behind the speech was Russian President Boris Yeltsin's attempt last week to disband the Russian Congress...
...This impetus, Whitesides and Chaudhury found, could be provided chemically by molecules whose properties determine the nature of a surface...