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...Treasury Secretary John Connally said publicly what other astute political experts have been saying privately for weeks: Ford's campaigning has been a "political mistake." Instead of building support, the forays have demonstrated his critical inability to inspire and stir up the voters. His failure has given new impetus to the candidacy of former California Governor Ronald Reagan...
...shutdown succeeds in slicing the faculty fuel bill--which has jumped $600,000 in the last two years--it may give new impetus to implementing the so-called energy calendar. That calendar begins at the same time as the current academic year, but keeps students idle for about five weeks over Christmas vacation and then shortens spring break...
That's why to Harvard officials the implications of the power plant are so great. They see the plant as an impetus for other private companies to band together, as Harvard and the medical institutions in the area did, shuck the local power company, and opt for their own plant with more economical rates...
...written--what I intend to write (not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow) and what perhaps I will never write..." Maybe this early premonition that something would always remain to be written explains his serenity in a recent conversation with Michel Contat. Although he has lost the basic impetus to his life, Sartre relates: "for some unknown reason I feel quite good: I am never sad, nor do I have any moments of melancholy in thinking of what I have lost...
Much of the intellectual impetus for busing came from the 1966 report by University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman, which demonstrated statistically that black students learn more in integrated classrooms. (A major tenet of the Coleman report, often overlooked, is that poor children learn more when they go to school with middle-class students; the report's conclusions about social class were as significant as those about race...