Word: impetuses
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...politico’s favorite summer topic, surprisingly vanished from the legislative agenda. The reason for its absence, it seems, is that the issue was checked off Washington’s to do list before the job was really done. While media hype has always functioned as an impetus for change, once the issue falls from front-page news, so—sadly—does its legislative support. Our corporate accounting problems will not simply go away because President Bush took a brief moment to scold business malpractice. The only way we are going to prevent another corporate scandal...
...What we suspected, and what we ultimately did find, was that counties with large minority populations had higher spoilage rates,” Ancheta said, adding that problems faced by minority voters in Florida served as the impetus for launching the report...
...band members say the Columbia incident—which most felt went over the line—was not the impetus behind a move to more friendly programming...
Though specific new policies adopted by individual clubs remain tightly under wraps, leaving the impetus for those changes open to much speculation on campus, no one denies that the club scene is being shaken to its core...
...inclusion of Russia's Olga Yegorova, who had tested positive for the oxygen-boosting drug, erythro-poetin, and was banned, but was reinstated on a technicality. Radcliffe doesn't regret her stand. "That protest was not against Yegorova," she says. "It was against all epo cheats. The testing impetus and development had stood still. I feel this helped turn the tide." In April Radcliffe won her first full marathon in memorable fashion: beating a world-class field in London by a huge three and half minutes, and missing the world record by just one-tenth of a second...