Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Love, the movies tell us, is a grand spur to acheivement. But so is hatred. Give a fellow a good grudge and a thirst for revenge, and he will find his wits sharpened, his energy focused, his ambition liberated from the timid bonds of morality. On this kind of obsession, companies have been built and countries destroyed. It's surely a strong enough motivation for one devilishly clever Polish movie: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: White...
...Jones proceeds now, Bennett plans to argue, the decision could inspire copycat lawsuits. In Fitzgerald, Chief Justice Warren Burger was worried that uncontrolled litigation, which sometimes is used as "a mechanism of extortion," could spur a President's political opponents to file suits simply to distract him from his duties. After quoting Burger, Bennett's draft says "one can readily imagine" further claims, "especially involving unwitnessed one-on-one encounters that are exceedingly difficult to disprove. Moreover, given the moral annihilation approach to modern politics, one can easily envision political operatives recruiting putative plaintiffs to embarrass a President...
Delegates going to Cairo should keep these subtle signals in mind and scale back their ambitions to reform the world as they formulate their action plan. Government programs that subsidize jobs or housing can spur population growth ( by giving people false confidence in the future, while a tiny loan that enables a woman in Bangladesh to buy a sewing machine to start a business may give her an incentive to limit the number of children she bears. Such empowerment is more achievable in the developing world than paid maternal leave, day care and other high-minded calls that characterize population...
...think students are going to learn because you give them so much for an A or a B, then you're barking up the wrong tree," notes Andrew Hahn, an associate dean at Brandeis University. But the recognition and attention that prizes, honors and cash may bring can sometimes spur the indifferent toward greater achievement...
...mini air strikes spur the Serbs to close in on Gorazde...