Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First Order of Business. However, if Johnson is hoping that his tough measures will spur Mills to swifter action on the tax increase, he may be in for a disappointment. In announcing his program at the ranch, the President declared, largely for Mills's benefit, "No business before the returning Congress will be more urgent than this: to enact the anti-inflation tax which I have sought for almost a year." But Mills and several Ways and Means colleagues are still deeply disturbed at the rate of Government spending, and they do not intend to move the tax surcharge...
...added arms spending, however, it seems likely that efficiency gains would lead more to increases in our already formidable arsenal than to the reallocation of resources into applications yielding greater social benefits. An efficiency-induced increase in U.S. military strength would in turn, if recent history can be extrapolated, spur the Soviet bloc to intensified efforts in forging new and more powerful countervailing weapons...
...brightest tinkerers, Cole was marked as a comer in 1952 when he was asked to fire up the then dowdy Chevrolet division. In a bare 15 weeks, he developed a lighter, snappier engine that he coyly boasted had "a little intrigue." It had enough to spur a new burst of sales, and four years later Cole was head of the division...
...severing anyone, the Faculty realized that many of the students became involved in the demonstration on the spur of the moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined to mount a premeditated assault on the rules of the University. And many of the demonstrators now regret the tactic of obstruction they used to protest the war and Dow's appearance at Harvard...
...behavior of many of the troops this weekend. They should have known that the demonstrators were not lawless thugs, bent on ravagaing the insides of the Pentagon. More important, the troops and officers should have realized that their brutality--and implicitly that of the government--will only spur on further illegal acts of resistance...