Word: impetuses
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...Most teams are technically owned by local and regional governments. With operating budgets provided primarily by local treasuries, there is little impetus for the generals to run the league as a business. Players' salaries are generally minimal and ticket prices are cheap (70 to $6), although fans of many teams don't bother paying when they can climb over fences of poorly secured pitches. But as long as the generals can entertain friends and snack on fried tofu (a spectator favorite) during matches, why should they change anything? Attendance has been flat, from about...
...LARAMIE PROJECT The murder of gay student Matthew Shepard in Wyoming was the impetus for Moises Kaufman's unique stage docudrama, constructed entirely from interviews with the witnesses and participants. A pioneering work of theatrical reportage and a powerful stage event...
...Presumably Western pressure adds to the impetus towards a unity government...
...Harkin (D-Iowa), who provided the impetus for the Times article by providing unclassified State Department documents to the newspaper, has promised in conjunction with Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to introduce legislation calling to prohibit imports from Burma...
...most significant impetus for the lawyer tax has been the billion-dollar fees paid as a result of the nationwide tobacco settlement between a number of states and the tobacco industry. The settlement compensates the states for the damage caused by cigarettes to their citizens' health to the tune of $200 billion over 25 years. As a result of the huge payout, the lawyers who represented the states in these cases and who negotiated the settlement stand to collect fees of more than $10 billion over the next 20 years. Bush's proposal, which has not yet been introduced...