Word: impetuses
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This heads-up approach got its impetus early in his hoop career when he witnessed the fleecing of fellow Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who lost millions to unscrupulous financial advisers in the 1980s. Johnson dumped his own advisers and started demanding monthly statements from his new ones. He realized that Magic Johnson was a brand name as well as his own, and that he wasn't benefiting from it. So he became the first active N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime...
This controversy provides the impetus for the surreal plot of The Term Paper Artist. In the novella, the character named David Leavitt, distraught over the suppression of his novel and suffering from writer's block as a result, hides out at his father's house in Los Angeles and does halfhearted research at the UCLA library for a novel he's pretty sure he will never write. By chance he meets Eric, an attractive undergraduate, who invites him to his apartment to share some marijuana. Hoping for sex, Leavitt learns that the seductive Eric has a more complex transaction...
...official, however, Zedillo and Cervantes had huddled after Feb. 6, deciding not to inform Washington--and thus risk Clinton's wrath--until a solid case developed against Gutierrez. Zedillo may have seen a chance to flex some badly needed muscle and make sure Mexico's generals understood that the impetus to nab Gutierrez came from him--and not the U.S. In any case, Zedillo does not much care for certification. It is, he told Time, "a rather improper procedure, not very consistent with the principles of international...
...hero. Actually, Larry Flynt pursued the case [brought by Jerry Falwell] out of spite after the death of his wife [from AIDS]. Falwell vilified AIDS victims and had no sympathy for them. Larry Flynt was not motivated by the arguments for free expression put before the court. His impetus was not heroic, but spiteful...
...approached not only Shalala but also Medicare- and Medicaid-programs administrator Bruce Vladeck, whose office had written the sharper guidelines and who offered to consider revisions. Solomont says he was the "impetus" for at least two meetings with Vladeck and an exchange of letters. In one memo, Solomont asked Vladeck to review suggested changes: "Put it in your own words and send it back to us in a letter [to show] our mutual direction." To consumer advocates such as Toby Edelman of the National Senior Citizens Law Center, "it's disturbing they had access that ordinary people don't have...