Word: impetuses
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...name out of the newspapers and waited several months before announcing a change of plans, she would have been beyond the reach of the department. Instead she was caught in the twilight area between the time the department votes tenure and the administration and the Corporation approve it. The impetus for the May reconsideration reportedly came from the administration, and it is between the dean and the president that the nomination may face its most serious obstacle...
Case said that the impetus for the experimental program stems from "student complaints that the Economics Department at Harvard is too theoretical" and that the new program is designed to encourage students to "use their knowledge of economic theory to address empirical issues...
...Chinese Look? The reopening of East-West trade was a major impetus. Commune-style jackets imported from the People's Republic caught the fancy of the young in Paris two years ago as an alternative to the standard jeans and T shirts. "For the past ten years in the West, the fashion emphasis has been on 'the uniform,'' says American Designer Mary McFadden. "We had to have some resurrection of beautiful fabric and fantasy, and when you go to fantasy you must go ethnic...
...committees do link the Kennedy brothers with the plots against Castro's life, as TIME sources have done, this may add impetus to demands for a renewed investigation of President Kennedy's death. No investigation has established that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in touch with any Cuban leaders or could have been part of a retaliatory attack on Kennedy for the U.S. efforts to kill Castro. The significance of the Kennedy connection to anti-Castro plots is not that it strengthens the many Oswald conspiracy theories, but that it tends to knock down the notion that...
...special sympathy with which Spacks pursues this particular line may reflect a special interest in adolescents, in particular, her students at Wellesley College. The impetus for the book grew out of an undergraduate seminar on women's literature. From the student comments she quotes from the seminar, we learn that she was impressed with their conflicts and their desire for role models, which they sought in their sex's literature and in their professor...