Word: impetuses
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...alliance is determined that the enlargement strengthen Europe as a whole, to benefit nonmembers as well. In particular, the Madrid Summit will provide an impetus for bolstering the Partnership for Peace, which for the past three years has fostered joint exercises and closer coordination of defense planning among the allies and 27 neutral and former Warsaw Pact states...
...impetus to expand the number of classes in order to lower class size in the Core was clear; only 86 Core classes were offered in comparison to 105 the year before, causing students to pack into ever larger courses...
...racial discrimination. This has caused significant drops in undergraduate minority admissions at U.T. and Texas A&M, the leading schools in the state system, and may result in an even greater drop-off in enrollment, since financial aid must also now be color-blind. In California's case, the impetus for revising its university admissions policies is Proposition 209, the successful 1996 ballot initiative. The changes implemented by the law schools this year won't apply to undergraduates until...
...well have been a response to the publicity that issues surrounding homosexuality have been getting in the days since Queer Month began. If Queer Month is to serve the role of educating the Harvard student body about homosexuality, then its organizers should take this upsetting event as an impetus to bring the homophobia latent on this campus to the fore and to find constructive ways of dealing with it. At the same time, the administration should follow the Kennedy School's example in responding to the homophobia speech by sponsoring more programs to educate all students...
However, it seems that the states are hesitant to get involved. Why aren't the states poised to battle for their young? What is readily apparent is the lack of impetus from the so-called besieged. After all, the youth of America are not rising up against cigarette advertising themselves...