Word: impetuses
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Some said the galvanizing effects of crises like the protest last year serve as an impetus for change...
...think this will give schools the impetus to get their house in order," Kleinfelder said. "This will help the Harvard administration become proactive...
Design School student Kristin E. Hill said that she thought the Powell speech might provide the impetus for a large-scale push to obtain such measures as a center...
...ratified by Congress, NAFTA would eliminate virtually all import-export barriers among the United States, Canada and Mexico over the next fifteen years. The fact that the 360 million consumers in this free trade area would automatically benefit from lowered prices should be a major impetus for the treaty's ratification...
...TITLE OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE'S LIFE WITH AN IDIOT (Sony Classical) evokes a world of Russian literature -- Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin -- but the real impetus for this new opera by Russia's finest living composer is a powerful short story by the former underground author Victor Erofeyev. Any political resonance in the tale of an idiot named Vova (Lenin's nickname), who moves in with a hapless couple and destroys their lives, is, of course, purely intentional. Schnittke limns the moral and social breakdown of "I" and his "Wife" in a score of terrifying, eclectic intensity. The first-rate performance, recorded...