Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social change, the capitalist views such interference as an unfortunate but necessary compromise with an ideal. Recognition of necessity and stirrings of conscience will continue to spur the capitalist to embrace some of those demands for social justice advanced by socialism...
...regime is having second thoughts about the pace of its economic strategy. Dar es Salaam has endorsed a World Bank study that, among other things, calls on Tanzania to 1) spend less on social services and more on industrial and farm development, 2) pay peasants more for crops to spur productivity, 3) stop forcing villagers to join the ujamaa work brigades...
Many of the new directions seek to spur economic growth by encouraging higher productivity and renewed respect for China's educators and scientists. Teachers are now being told to spend nearly all their time in classroom work, rather than doing the manual labor so beloved by China's radicals. University entrance examinations, once scorned as "revisionist," have been reinstated. Some prominent victims of past ideological attacks have been restored to grace. Several hundred members of Shanghai's Academy of Sciences, who were once accused of being secret agents of Taiwan's Kuomintang, have been exonerated...
Once again the U.S. has tried to persuade West Germany to help spur a worldwide economic recovery by dumping its slow-growth policies in favor of accelerated expansion-and once again the Germans have refused. At a tense three-hour meeting in Bonn, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was lectured last week by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about the U.S.'s economic "sins." Among the most grievous cited by Schmidt: the absence of a coherent energy program; the U.S.'s huge foreign trade deficit, which stimulates international inflation; and Washington's unconscionable failure to support the sagging dollar...
Skeptics may argue that amending the footnote and throwing away some Latin abbreviations hardly amount to an effective attack on the problem of scholarly gobbledygook. Perhaps not, but Van Leunen's strictures may spur a few professors and scholars into reflection. The practice of footnoting every phrase or idea that does not fit into the text quickly be comes habit-forming.5 So do many of the tics that help make so much academic writing so impenetrable. Such habits should be broken...