Word: impetuses
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...night crusade. Sky wins their souls with a toss of the dice. He herds the gamblers into the midnight prayer meeting, Sarah keeps her job, the sinners are saved, and Sky and Sarah are married. It's not the most clever plot around, but it does provide the impetus for the parade of magnified characters and a great score, including such standards as "I've Never Been in Love Before" and "Luck Be A Lady...
...Congestion--As already implied, the added crowds--12,000 people on summer weekends--will aggravate the current stockyard conditions in the Square. The library will be the impetus for complete redevelopment of at least the southwest sector of Harvard Square, with two new hotels already planned...
...thing, other small peripheral manufacturers are expected to follow the Telex lead and file suit for their own alleged antitrust damages. For another, the decision may give impetus to a four-year-old Justice Department suit that has charged IBM with monopolizing the entire basic computer market...
...program's original impetus came from Harvard and other Ivy League administrators--President Bok and Robert B. Watson '37, director of Athletics, among them--and students concerned with the small number of minority group members involved in college athletics in positions above the player level...
Riesman argues that the initial impetus for egalitarian meritocracy came from President Lowell's early 20th century drive to upgrade the quality of the Harvard faculty and student body...