Word: impetuses
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...white residents of Gay Head believe their antagonism to the suit is equally valid. The Gay Head Taxpayers Association moved to intervene two years after the Indians filed their suit. A stormy Gay Head town meeting, which received extensive coverage from the national media, provided the opposition's impetus. After the dust settled, the town of Gay Head, with an Indian majority, voted both to dismiss the lawyer the town hired to defend the suit against the tribal council and to give the contested land to the Indians. Vague hints that the town might wish to code even more land...
Suzannah Doeringer, assistant director of the Fogg, said yesterday the Kresge gift will add impetus to the drive when it "goes public" in October...
...think if a particular leader of one of the countries should find that his position is in direct contravention to the position of all the other parties involved, including ourselves and the Soviet Union, and was a narrowly defined question in his own country, there would be a great impetus on that leader to conform with the overwhelming opinion...
What ever happened to the four-day work week? Not so long ago, management consultants were trumpeting the virtues of the institutionalized long weekend as something that would revolutionize American business, improve worker morale and give a whole new impetus to the leisure-time industry. Then came the 1974-75 recession, and the idea of the three-day weekend generally landed back in the pending file...
Graham T. Allison '62, incoming dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday the most significant aspect of the grant is the impetus it will give towards the creation of at least six other research centers...