Word: impetuses
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According to Hans Biebuyck, a chemistry graduate student who works in the Whitesides group, the only ingredient missing from nature was an impetus for water to move...
...nightmare vision of what could happen if the extremists prevail and the forces for peace cannot hold may also provide an impetus to succeed. The other prospect would be terrible indeed: the Israeli army marching back into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the face of an entrenched P.L.O. and almost 2 million furious Palestinians. That outcome would swiftly wash away hopes for peace in a new wave of bloodshed...
...impetus is the belief that if kids watch violent shows, some of them will become criminally violent. "An avalanche" of definitive, unequivocal research has proved this notion, Senator Simon said last week. For two decades the psychology establishment and do-gooders have repeated this mantra. In fact, the connections are murky. Studies that find no links between TV and violence -- and there have been many -- tend not to be published or publicized...
Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers Donene M. Williams, who served on the committee, said she thought the recent controversy surrounding the selection of Gen. Colin L. Powell as commencement speaker provided an added impetus for the committee to work out a policy covering domestic partners...
...think that society now is probably most concerned about cost containment, which is the most important political emphasis, and impetus behind health care reform," says Blumenthal. "I don't think Clinton would not be nearly as interested in health care reform if health care were not 14 percent of the GNP, or if the Medicare or Medicaid budget weren't going through the roof...