Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what most depressed the Community leaders was their worry that something very fundamental may be going wrong in Western Europe and that their political careers may be abruptly shortened because of it. There was certainly enough evidence last week to spur such apprehensions. Items...
...well past the transition from the end of the oil and gas era to new, possibly not yet discovered sources of energy in the 2000s. The program will count on the profit consciousness of the coal companies, which now mine about 655 million tons per year, as a spur to increasing production to 1 billion or more tons annually...
...increase is badly needed: sluggish business investment is probably the biggest drag on the economy, and while the rise in the credit would be small, it has become a symbolic issue in the eyes of many executives. But the House, in a misguided effort to spur employment, turned it down in favor of a "jobs tax credit": 40% of a newly hired worker's wages, up to a maximum of $1,680. The House put a ceiling of $40,000 on the credit any one employer could take, thus effectively limiting the benefits to small businesses, which...
McCarthy has yet to write stirring verse, similar to that inspired by Vietnam, about the 1976 campaign, and he said he doubts that he will. Events that spur the poet occur infrequently in one's lifetime, and in the case of Vietnam, McCarthy surely must see this failing of history as a blessing...
...Battle at Elderbush Gulch and The Naked Spur. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...