Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crown Prince Feisal, who fear that the example of a successful revolution in Yemen will spark trouble within their own kingdoms, were acknowledged by U.S. officials to be "extremely unhappy." The U.S. is aware of their fears, but is gambling that the example of Yemen will prove a spur to reform rather than revolution in all the Middle East's monarchies...
Early morality crusades have been abandoned to spur the economy. The junta eased its ban on prostitution because it could not find enough jobs for the unemployed hustlers. Antigambling laws were rewritten so that the government could back the development of a new. $3.800.000 gambling, hotel and entertainment complex outside Seoul called Walker Hill (named after the late U.S. General Walton Walker, who led U.N. forces during the Korean war). Slated to be dedicated this week, Walker Hill is designed to entice U.S. soldiers to spend their leaves-and their dollars-in Korea rather than in nearby Japan...
...tenure at Harvard, Keppel has frequently advocated a wide-spread program of federal aid to education. Most significantly, he has favored a vast network of nationwide research and development facilities to spur original research...
...usually one-sixth of a gill-barely enough, Britons grumble, to wet the glass. Henceforth, pubs will be allowed to dispense one-sixth, one-fifth or one-fourth of a gill.* But will be forced to display a sign saying clearly which measure they use. The greatest spur to thoroughgoing reform will undoubtedly be British membership in the European Common Market. In time, Englishmen may even order their mild-and-bitter by the liter, and pay in decimal currency-but few last week would bet a fluid dram that they would live...
Before World War I, the university launched the South's first great college extension service, which in turn inspired good highways, school libraries, medical schools, community drama and the North Carolina Symphony. The Institute for Research in Social Science dramatized Southern problems, helped spur TVA. The Institute of Government trains state and local officials at every level-judges, jailers, sheriffs, tax collectors. Spurning political interference, North Carolina desegregated its graduate schools in 1951 and admitted Negro undergraduates in 1954. Last year Julius L. Chambers, the Negro son of an auto mechanic, scored the law school's highest grades...