Word: impetuses
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...Bush Administration, led by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, was wildly unenthusiastic about pressuring offshore havens--until Sept. 11 brought new impetus to tracking down terrorists' funds. Until this year, Republican lawmakers had been cutting the IRS budget since the mid-'90s. There are about 5,000 fewer auditors and collectors than there were in 1995, meaning your chances of being audited this year are about 1 in 173. Last year the service conducted 732,000 audits, down from 1.9 million in 1996. Enforcement actions including property seizures dropped from 3.5 million in 1995 to 875,800 last year...
...impetus for the slam was David J. Morin, elder statesman of Harvard physics poetry, who suggested the idea to SPS. Morin, the head teaching fellow for Physics 16, wrote the sourcebook for the class, which is filled with more than 40 limericks, including...
Gayle said the impetus for the campaign came from an e-mail he received from Lowell House tutor Christopher D. Tirres shortly before spring break, informing him that West was leaning towards a move to Princeton...
...greatly troubling that it took the exposure of Enron’s corruption to provide the impetus for Congress to act on campaign finance. An incredible number of politicians received campaign contributions from Enron, but it was only the public backlash after its collapse that provided the motivation for lawmakers...
Junior Jay Wich provided the impetus for the scoring explosion, figuring in more than half of the Crimson’s tallies with three goals and three assists and continuing his seamless transition from his midfield role last season to the Harvard attack...