Word: impetuses
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However primitive such programming may be, it has provided the impetus necessary to bring CATV to heavily populated urban centers, a development that will necessitate more and more local programming. It is said that new media begin by doing the job of old media better. Cable television is now transmitting broadcast signals better. And it looks as though people are beginning to realize that the business of cable television is not the business of transmitting a better image of Lassie, it is the business of creating a decentralized communications network...
...Chrysler Corp., which employs 153,000, agreed to set up a joint committee with the United Auto Workers to study the feasibility of switching to a four-day schedule followed by three days off. If such a schedule becomes part of a new contract, it could provide a powerful impetus for a shorter work week...
That is not what No, No Nanette does, but nostalgia is the impetus of the evening. Nostalgia is rampant in the presence of Ruby Keeler, 60, who emerges as a warmly appealing personality and dances with a valiant nimbleness. Nostalgia propels the tap-Rockette sequences of the Busby Berkeley chorus, with its mass assembly-line dance routines supervised by the 75-year...
...impetus for innovation in social service and educational projects dominated P.B.H.A. in the 1960's. Foundations responded with initial grants and by the middle of the decade, P.B.H.A. expanded significantly both in number of programs and in number of participants. Expansion brought greatly increased expenditures, especially for the central operation of the Association and for professional assistance to the project committees. The rising costs of the whole organization, of course, derive from the operations of the latter committees...
...hardly news to Dickens specialists today that the blacking-factory episode, as Wilson puts it, "provided nearly a lifetime's impetus toward artistic creation." Wilson's scrutiny of the fierce personal drive that transformed an anonymous, victimized lad into the inimitable Boz opens the way to a shrewd, wide-ranging analysis of Dickens' life and work. The result is the best all-round book on the subject for the general reader in years. Absorbing, gracefully written, freshly thought out, it is, in addition, that rare hybrid, a coffee-table book with both brains and beauty. The glossy...