Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public in rebates and incentives. Long supports energy taxes in broad outline, but as the senior Senator from a state rich in gas and oil, he has other ideas about who should get the money. He wants to return it to gas and oil producers as a spur to finding new fields and to earmark some of it for developing new energy sources...
...make a plea for further wage restraint. He tentatively promised more tax cuts and spending increases next spring?but only if unions adhere to the 10% wage guideline. Even if they do, some economists worry, the Labor government in its rush to secure victory at the polls may spur a new round of inflationary consumer spending. Labor Party leaders said at Brighton that Britain ought to spend North Sea revenues to modernize its industry and build new income-producing businesses. By giving most of its goodies to consumers, this minibudget goes in the opposite direction...
Eisenberg gave up the game three years ago at age 15, and added that she entered the competition Sunday on the spur of the moment...
...boost price supports to 100% parity, a figure based on the prices that farmers received in the relatively prosperous period from 1910 to 1914. Calculated in today's terms, such price supports would boost wheat to a whopping $5 per bu., a figure that would outrage consumers and spur inflation...
...however, it was still unclear whether the Senators would accept the "clarification" as sufficient. They could still demand that its language be worked into a protocol or into the treaty itself. That would involve an arduous renegotiation effort that would certainly consume much time and might well spur the Panamanians to demand even larger concessions from Washington. Argues U.S. Negotiator Sol Linowitz: "Everything we wanted is in that treaty now, in that language...