Word: sparking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the key element in the entire Crimson game plan will be junior Arne Duncan, who came off the bench midway through last season to spark Harvard's dramatic drive...
...really fight meet," freshman Dave Berkoff said, but "we pulled together and broke their morale." No one was more responsible for that than two other Yardlings, John Ritch and Chris Gould Going into the 100-yd. freestyle, the Crimson needed a spark to clinch the meet Ritch and Gould provided it by both checking in at 46 seconds, sharing first place honors and ending the Cadet threat...
Auto sales may give a spark to the economy. Much of the production slowdown in the third quarter resulted from strikes against General Motors by U.S. and Canadian workers. The walkouts and quotas limiting Japanese auto imports have intensified the current demand for cars. The automakers reported last week that sales...
Often, relief aid comes too late and helps preserve the existing social and political order, blocking changes necessary to prevent recurring disaster. The alternative is not, as some have suggested, leaving "tolerable" levels of poverty to spark development; Ethiopia is, in many respects, too weakened to respond to "pressures" of that grisly nature. Nor does the solution lie in Indira Gandhi-like methods of population control. Unless the need for large families to increase agricultural production is alleviated by more efficient methods, the root cause will persist...
Fearing that the tragic news might spark street demonstrations and clashes with police, church leaders and Solidarity activists appealed for calm. During his weekly audience at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II urged his countrymen not to disturb "the great moral eloquence of this death." Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa asked Poles to observe "the silence of mourning." Said he: "They wanted to kill, and they killed not only a man, not only a Pole, not only a priest. They wanted to kill the hope that it is possible in Poland to avoid violence in political life...