Word: spurred
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California woman who sued Dow Corning Corp over health problems related to silicone breast implants. The woman claimed that she contracted a painful disease after her silicone breast implants ruptured. Dow Corning had contended that the damages awarded by a lower court were excessive. The lawsuit helped spur other legal complaints brought by women who claimed to be injured by breast implants made by the firm...
...role was a captive or a pinup, wounded faun (Forrest Gump) or ditsy wife (True Lies). For its Best Actress prize, the New York Film Critics had to go to a TV movie (The Last Seduction's Linda Fiorentino). Affirmative action is demode these days, but Hollywood needs some spur to bring women into full partnership with the Toms and Arnolds and Simbas...
...Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things better, so that the problem is better understood and more adapted to reality...
Vogue for orphanages, poorhouses may spur interest in his work...
Leaders of the 18 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, including President Clinton, met in Indonesia and agreed to work to create a gigantic free-trade zone by 2020. The accord, without any specific details, aims to spur growth in the region, which already accounts for half the world economy...