Word: impetuses
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...decade as there were fewer people left, the world would become wilder and more beautiful." I realized that's kind of what my book is about, the world would heal if we weren't here. But at the same time, hearing him put it that way reinforced what my impetus for writing the book was: I don't want that to happen. I don't want us to disappear. I'm a human being. I love life. I love lots of other human beings. I just want us to find our proper sustainable level in place with all living creatures...
...common loyalties - as well as shadowy links with Pakistani intelligence. As the probe into her assassination begins, investigators will have to sort through a morass of violent groups that were gunning for Bhutto. And while all have some historic link to al-Qaeda, they have just as much ideological impetus to act on their own - or at the behest of rogue elements of the Pakistani government sympathetic to Islamic radicals...
...Venezuela," says Joyce, "comes fairly low down the list." But Chavez does give a face to the race and an impetus for nationalistic Brazilian politicians to vote for an increase in the military budget. Indeed, part of the proposed new funds will go toward resuscitating the country's dormant arms industry. "We had 1% [share] of the world's arms market in the 1970s and 1980s," says Reserve Colonel Geraldo Lesbat Cavagnari, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Group at Unicamp university. "We need to recuperate that industry and invest in it. That means producing for the Brazilian armed forces...
...With governments becoming more adventurous in the way they invest their surplus wealth, investors ought to "rejoice at the impetus the SWFs will provide to continued growth in global asset markets," says Alex Patelis, head of international economics at Merrill Lynch. But countries on the receiving end of such largesse remain wary. At a G-7 meeting of finance ministers held in Washington in October, SWFs were a major topic of discussion, partly due to concern about their potential impact on markets. SWF "investment policies, minor comments or rumors could spark volatility," said Clay Lowery, assistant secretary for international affairs...
...single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater compensation for content being redistributed online has been met with muted disappointment, and even with some encouragement. “I support the strike wholeheartedly because it’s going to be the impetus for things in the future, for compensating workers for what they deserve,” said Claudia F. Schreier ’08, a TV watcher, over dinner in Adams House yesterday. “I can find something to do with the hour I have each week...