Word: spurs
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...Catholic and Episcopal dioceses of Baltimore have joined the case as co-defendants because they want a definitive constitutional decision. Church lawyers will argue that tax breaks spur vast church contributions to the public welfare through church schools, orphanages and hospitals. Another argument: tax breaks may actually be mandatory under the First Amendment's guarantee of "free exercise" of religion...
From the Widener Chamber the Tunnel strikes out in three directions. The shortest spur goes east under the basement of Widener, Houghton, and Lamont Libraries. A second arm (the one we had been in) runs north to Weld (where we had entered) and beyond to the Law School and science laboratories. The third section goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway...
Harvard is no longer the heavyweight champion of academic fundraising, says a new survey by the John Price Jones Co. The crown has slipped west to Stanford, which last year raised $38.5 million, compared with Harvard's $36 million. The apparent spur was one of the Ford Foundation's challenge grants, which seem to be shifting the financial balance of power in U.S. college fundraising. Stanford took on a 3-for-l Ford grant of $25 million, swept past the goal by rounding up $84.2 million more in 33 months. Harvard has yet to be Ford-powered...
...happy. In fact, he was downright grim when his economics ministry reported to him that Bonn's trade surplus for 1964's first two months was running at a staggering annual rate of $2.4 billion. Erhard sees the pile-up of export-earned foreign exchange as another spur to inflation, which is already getting a push from a huge in flux of foreign capital ($725 million in 1963) attracted by the high yields of German securities. Last week, determined to try and keep Germany an island of relative stability in the rising sea of European inflation, Erhard ordered...
With its crude, inept dramaturgy, The Deputy is no service to playwriting, and as a polemic, it might have been a far finer spur to conscience. Hochhuth affects to attack Pius XII for lacking the power of faith but really attacks him for lacking faith in power...