Word: spurred
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This program is so frightening to communist hard-liners as to spur speculation -- some of it inside Yeltsin's entourage -- that they might attempt a military coup to prevent anything like it from being carried out, in Russia or the other republics. Actually, though, the greater danger might be that Yeltsin will simply be unable to deliver, and his failure will sour a disillusioned populace not only on him but on democracy itself. Yeltsin takes office considerably overpromised. For example, he has pledged a hefty increase in pensions without offering any idea of how he proposes to raise the money...
...couple's spur-of-the-moment approach, Wilson says, didn't prevent them from enjoying their vacation--even with a few wrong turns along...
...publicizing the advantages that parochial schools can offer, the church hopes to help a good system thrive once again. In the process, by increasing a sense of competition for students and an awareness of the value of a rigorous education, the campaign could even serve to spur the nation's public schools...
...county, 35 miles south of Chicago, prevailed in an intense 15-month bidding contest against 20 other sites in Illinois and neighboring Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even renaming its county highway for Coilplus...
...Congress, which had lobbied hard to keep sanctions intact. Said Congress spokesperson Gill Marcus: "We still have a long way to go before apartheid is scrapped." Government-sponsored laws tearing down most racial restrictions, however, are expected to be approved by Parliament this June, and their passage will probably spur the U.S. to reconsider its own sanctions against South Africa...