Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reagan worked to spur expansion, lowering taxes and giving Uncle Sam less involvement in the lives of Americans...
FINALLY, PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON HAS UNVEILED a program not likely to be controversial: a $300 million initiative to spur vaccinations against childhood diseases. About half of U.S. two-year-olds have not received all their shots; in the western hemisphere, only Bolivia and Haiti have poorer records. The money will create a national system to keep track of immunizations and will enable public clinics to work longer hours and buy more vaccines. Clinton stopped short, though, of a $700 million proposal to guarantee free shots to all kids...
...balance the budget just by cutting benefits to the wealthy, but you can get a lot further than they would like you to believe," says a White House official. Rather than a sharp rise in the overall tax rates, which would spur the wealthy to seek tax shelters abroad, a cut in the spending programs and tax breaks enjoyed by upper-income Americans would better serve economic efficiency and incentives, argues a Clinton aide. "Rich people don't care about higher top rates because their lawyers and accountants can always find ways around them," the official says. "What they care...
...work for most developing countries. "When you are hungry, when you lack basic services," he told an audience in the Philippines, "freedom, human rights and democracy do not add up to much." Instead, poor countries should promote savings, discipline, hard work and education, open the economy to foreign competition, spur investment...
...fictional Eastern European country and is loosely based on Bulgaria. Barnes had visited the country two years ago, just after the Bulgarians had ousted their dictator and had democratic elections for the first time. He was emotionally taken by the people of the country and the emotional spur of being there...