Word: impetuses
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...satisfy voracious world demand. Thus, if the U.S. began immediately to expand its inadequate refinery capacity, and develop alternate fuel sources such as coal, shale oil and atomic power, it would still be four or five years before the nation's energy supplies met demand. Much of the impetus for such research and development will have to come from the Nixon Administration...
...closing of the Farah plants, as well as the onset of the Christmas shopping season, provided the impetus for last night's picketing, a demonstration leader said yesterday...
However, the primary impetus for this building comes from University administrators who see the Harvard portion of the Kennedy Library site as the last chance for significant University expansion in a tightening Cambridge land market...
When the bullet first strikes, it creates suction that draws bacteria from surrounding skin into the wound and the shape of the wound provides impetus for infection. The only way to deal with a high velocity wound is to remove damaged tissue by surgery. Anti-biotic treatment is not sufficient...
...nation pay for removing certain men from the assembly lines who once had a purpose in the great conveyor belt of social process--the dignity of being in some small sense midwives with grease on their aprons, unthinking cogs in a linear birth process, yes, but providing indispensable impetus nonetheless for the black tongue belt which spews forth from the belly of the Whale Motor Co. into the bosom of the general public wide track yachts, highway cruisers, gold-plated luxo-boats which drank Arab blood and ferried the rich and damned descendants of the former rootless races--Jews...