Word: impetuses
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...coalition's members tout strength in numbers as the impetus behind their effort, but administrators have yet to issue a direct response to the group's catalog of complaints, which include, the dearth of minority faculty members; the lack of ethnic studies courses; and the allegedly racist comments made by Thompson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...that some Pennsylvania businessmen first extracted it from the ground and refined it into kerosene. For years, the substance was used mainly to light lamps. Only with the coming of the automobile did oil become the most sought-after fuel in the world. Since then it has been the impetus for great capitalist enterprises, the object of geopolitical maneuvering, the reason for wars...
...Democratic Party, in a country that hadn't voted for a Democrat in a long time, there were all these people who wanted political reform but weren't sure any Democrat could deliver it. So when Perot got the vote he got, that really gave me the impetus to stick with the political reform. I think this will open the system to making tougher decisions...
While the Administration's pro-Iraq tilt in 1989 and 1990 failed spectacularly in the end -- Bush himself admits it "was not successful" -- it had logic at the time. The original impetus was fear of the Ayatullah Khomeini's Iran. Even though Saddam had provoked the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Washington began helping Iraq to stave off an Iranian victory. The Reagan Administration removed Baghdad from its list of terrorist countries, exchanged ambassadors, overlooked purchases of weapons from U.S. allies and secretly handed over intelligence about Iran's capabilities and intentions...
...with the last big revolution in education -- the imposition of universal public schooling in the mid-1800s -- this one will be driven by the Federal Government. The impetus will be political, social and economic. Such competitors as Japan and the European Community, which pour substantial resources into education, have already caught up with and surpassed the U.S. in the quality of their workers, and the trend will continue. In America a growing, uneducated, unemployable and mostly minority underclass will put increasing pressure on society to pay more than lip service to education...