Word: impetuses
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...Soviet tests indicated substantial advances in the development of entire atomic weapons systems-particularly including progress in the anti-missile missile area, in which the U.S. is lagging and cannot pick up real impetus until it resumes its own atmospheric testing. The U.S. anti-missile missile, Nike-Zeus, will not even be ready for check-out testing until...
...increase in the number of seniors writing theses provided an immediate impetus for the Department's action, Wolff noted. Because of a Faculty ruling at spring the Department will have to read 50 or 60 extra theses written by students in groups IV and V. Previously, these students would not have been showed to submit them...
...show was the idea of Phillip Lewis, the museum's curator of primitive art, and the 31 pieces came from some 500,000 objects in the museum's collection. "Primitive art in general tends to be rather static," says Lewis. "But when these craftsmen were given the impetus of a new people, they were released from the static view of their own society. There is no question that the colonists had an impact upon their art." Lewis believes that some of the sculptures may have been made to be sold to the whites, but if the show proves...
...impetus behind such work should not be simply for better University-city relations. This is incidental. Rather, in a community with so many challenges for urban and social renewal, the interested undergraduate might learn a few simple facts of life that he would not otherwise...
...isolation from the world, and they do not leave. The transience rate is still high, but there are many who stay on--the average time of residence is three years, but more than half of the occupants have been around for a decade. Families lack the strength, the impetus, the unity to break away...