Word: impetuses
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...underlying impetus for this development, both at Harvard and elsewhere, is the unrelenting advance of technology. Each year brings manufacturers the increasing ability to pack more and more computer power into smaller and smaller machines. The personal computer has become almost as commonplace as the typewriter on many college campuses...
...impetus for such deals on the part of the companies is clear--they are looking for places to test new equipment: as well as get students accustomed to using their equipment...
...There are a number of people concerned with the consequences of the lottery," says Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59. But he adds that student impetus for change in the system may be held back because it is a seasonal issue and because students have so many views on the subject...
...Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff. But not just like Macbeth, the ultimate Elizabethan screw-up. Anybody who's taken a high school Shakespeare class knows that Macbeth brought on his own tragedy. True, Lady Macbeth was the impetus for that saying. "Behind every successful man is a strong woman," but Lord Macbeth would have done it without her. He was too damned ambitious. He didn't just test Fate, he set it rolling in the wrong direction...
...also compelled to address Hirschorn's assertion that Reverend Jackson has created an "almost absolute schism" between Black and white voters. Rather, we must address the simple, yet virulent racism that is the impetus behind this and other such grotesque examples of non-analysis...