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Papandreou humbly refused to discuss implementation details. He avoids the petty praise of his policy decisions while in office, as per other politicians. Instead, he spoke of a vision that resonates with Plato's theory of the form. The impetus behind this drive was catalyzed by "the earthquake relief aid that we sent to Turkey," said Papandreou. "My telephone lines got jammed. People from all over Greece were calling to ask where they could send monetary help, food and how to even volunteer to go to the damaged region...
...Another impetus is the ticking of the American political clock. U.S. officials say Assad believes President Clinton can help him get Syria's best deal with Israel. He knows, they add, that otherwise Syria will have to wait for a new U.S. President. Assad's aim is to enhance Syria's long-term stability by achieving a "cold peace" with Israel. His hope is to go down in history both as a peacemaker and as the Arab struggler who remained steadfast long after the Sadats, the Husseins and the Arafats did separate deals behind his back. He can portray...
...fair, the impetus comes mostly from the firms that are recruiting. Local non-profits, magazines, school districts and Congress have few built-in mechanisms or resources to come here and woo us. OCS does attempt to present a variety of other options (or at least, direct us to the ubiquitous "binders in the downstairs reading room"). We should expect more of OCS, though. Compared to the convenience of the recruiting process, finding information about other fields is a much more arduous a task. Students who pursue other fields must be largely selfguided...
Candidate Nancy Walser pointed to sociological evidence as both a cause of the discrepancies in student performance and as an impetus for change...
...less likely to hold up a merger between long-distance companies (MCI and Sprint are Nos. 2 and 3 in that market, respectively) because there?s already a big fat competitor sitting right there," says TIME business writer Karl Taro Greenfeld. "In fact, some of the impetus for MCI to buy Sprint may be to save money and compete even more with...