Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spread of gambling across the U.S. is certain to sharpen the debate about its social effects and spur efforts to analyze its roots in human behavior. One explanation for its pervasiveness is offered by James Ritchie, executive director of the Gambling Commission. "There is in the breast of every person," he observes, "a desire to risk. It may be a desire to run for political office, or a desire by a farmer to plant wheat and see if the elements allow him to reap a crop, or a desire to buy stock or commodity futures. Or maybe it comes from...
...investigator under a mass of data too big and diffuse to sort through. But only when the reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill: Aluminum Association $70,000 American Iron & Steel Institute 63,499 Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 66,850 Can Manufacturer's Institute 186,401 Canada Dry Bottling Co. 37,000 Coca-Cola and bottling cos. 164,290 Adolf Coors Co. 27,270 Glass...
...credit, Ford has repeatedly stressed that he would reduce taxes on capital to spur investment. He would like to enact tax incentives for stock ownership, for example, by ending the double taxation of corporate income and dividends. Carter agrees on this point. The two candidates also agree that the whole tax system should be simplified -but after that they part company...
...Missouri's Senate contest, moderate Republican John Danforth, 40, Missouri's attorney general for the past eight years, appears to be pulling away. A gangly (6 ft. 3 in.), ambitious politician who attended Princeton, Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School, Danforth has since 1968 helped to spur a brilliant Republican resurgence in the state which put into office in 1973 the current Governor, Kit Bond, the first Republican to hold that office in Missouri in 30 years. Attorney General Danforth has a deserved "Mr. Clean" image (TIME selected him in 1974 as one of the country...
Ford also wants to reduce taxes on capital to spur investment. Among other things, he would allow working Americans with annual incomes up to $40,000 to defer taxes on funds invested in common stocks held for at least seven years. Other Ford proposals are written into the tax bill that awaits his signature (TIME, Sept. 20). They include a provision that has the effect of increasing the amount of an estate that is not taxed, now $60,000, to $120,000 next year...