Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hyman also argues that U.S. companies and Stateside banks, which presently hold 14% of all British deposits, act as a spur to make Britons perform better themselves. A hard-driving industrialist who makes all of Viyella's management decisions, he is particularly impressed by American marketing and productivity. "American businesses in Britain work back from the marketplace and simplify their plants," he says. "British businesses, through excessive product proliferation, are far less rational in their factories...
...full month later than usual, contains a disconcerting analysis of rising crime since 1960, the span of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. FBI statistics usually stir debate. This edition enlarged the argument to include Hoover's motives for its late release. Did he time it to spur the Democrats into taking a stiffer law-and-order stance? Or was he striking back at those party members who urged that he be retired by the next Administration? The FBI insists that the delay was caused by the complexity of the fact-finding job. Whatever Hoover...
...they went. Yet they did not sound strong enough on an impatient continent that more than ever demands change and forceful leadership. The Pope's presence and pronouncements alone were not likely to bend the conscience of Latin America's wealthy Catholics sufficiently to spur them on to creative social revolution...
...foreseeable future, African expectations must constantly outrace gratification?a spur that gives hope for ultimate progress but also inevitably promises more civil wars and revolutions. Unfortunately, a new order and a new map of Africa may eventually emerge only after tribes and the would-be nations have gone through many violent tests of strength. If Africa does surmount its troubles, it will have to find substitutes for tribalism, with its emphasis on order, authority and belonging. To harness those values in peaceful ways is Africa's challenge?and a great drama...
...cabs have the kind of appeal that is hard to equal. Heads turn whenever he drives by. Katz has sold his black Austin cabs to banks, restaurants, men's clothing stores ,and a few individuals on a spur-of-the-moment basis...