Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...havethat much, but you're welcome to what's here."That meant that there was more food than I couldever hope to consume, so I might as well eat untilmy cheeks swelled and closed up my eyes. All thewhile, my Uncle John (yes, I'm named after him)would spur me on to new heights of gluttony bycheering, "Eat!" every 15 minutes or so. He had away of saying it in a high-pitched half screamtypical of Southern exclamation which often scaredthe hell out of new supper guests. Aunt Bessie, onthe other hand, would merely say, "I like to seemy...
...event will be part of MTV's "Rock the Vote," an attempt to spur interest in the 18-24 year old age group, which generally has a low voting record. There will be a live broadcast from the restaurant from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on WBCN Radio and several area bands will perform throughout the afternoon...
...wider conflict. Serbs loathe, and oppress, the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo province, which is also home to 209,000 Serbs; some analysts predict that the Albanians there will rebel or that Belgrade will try to drive them out as soon as the Bosnian question is settled. Either eventuality could spur Albania to intervene. Hungary has massed troops at its southern border to protect 385,000 ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. A Serbian effort to annex parts of Macedonia could prompt a response by Russia, Bulgaria or even Turkey...
...Canada tequila is slapped with a 183% duty). More important will be the steps that NAFTA takes to diminish nontariff barriers, such as dairy and cotton quotas in the U.S. and Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer market, the pact aims to spur capital investment across all three jurisdictions. This would be a striking change for Mexico, which has long banned outside ownership of strategic sectors like farm and border lands...
...mention U.S. smart bombs. Bush faces a more complex set of inhibitions. Saddam has been playing a brilliant game of "cheat and retreat," chipping away at the sanctions without driving the allies to retaliation. He is not likely to hand Bush the kind of flagrant breach that would spur a unanimous vote for war among U.S. allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says a senior Bush adviser, but "we've gone to a lot of effort to construct a world where we could get the civilized community to agree on moves to deal with outlaws. To the extent...