Word: impetuses
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Determining if the impetus for organization should come from CLAO or the group involved is a touching issue. Traditionally, lawyers are not supposed to seek out business. However, as Newman points out, "The rules are really relaxed when you're not doing it for money...
Only a minority of Americans, they conclude, will act against the system. The impetus for social change will come from the black "colony" in America and from those in the Third World who are confronted with the apparatus of the American state. Their own limited bombing action will serve as an example to those in this country who would have a rational motivation to join them...
...hold-outs, it will not risk its financial security by decreasing its dividend returns. It will pave the way for all Ivy colleges, who together own over 600,000 shares of GM stock, to also join the hold-outs. A Harvard vote against the GM management could provide the impetus necessary to push GM into a more responsible attitude toward the public. It may, after the shock passes through Massachusetts Hall, even be good for GM. And, after all, what's good for General Motors is supposed to be good for the country...
...progressive. Toward the end, a remarkable tracking shot holds Willie, running quickly through rocky foothills, constant in the frame. He is not running to escape somebody: he is simply running, that is his condition. He has willed it so. He knows that his effort will not generate the impetus to take him out of that condition...
Irwin said when a Radcliffe girl began moving into his Lowell suite in the coed living experiment, it was "another impetus to get out early...