Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FOURTH WORLD contains the LDCs that have some raw materials, some modern economic infrastructure and some trained technocrats and administrators and thus could eventually achieve self-sustaining economic growth. But unlike Third World countries, they need significant financial help and special treatment by the industrial powers to spur exports of their goods and imports of technology. This group, with a population of 930 million, includes Peru, the Dominican Republic, Liberia, Jordan, Egypt, Thailand and Guinea-Bissau...
...Encourage entrepreneurs. Because of a widespread ideological commitment to the need for an "equitable" distribution of income, entrepreneurial initiative is frequently quashed-and with it, a dynamic needed to spur economic development. Many developing countries are hostile to business and take a dim view of profits; policies favoring featherbedding in order to cut unemployment rosters result in economic inefficiencies. The leaders of poor states may have to recognize that by choosing "equity," they may be delaying or even preventing development. Successful businessmen, skilled workers and innovators should be rewarded with high earnings, even if it means that their living standards...
...male platypus against another platypus. He conjectures, from examining the bodies of the platypuses he trapped, that the males attack one another more often than they attack females and that the weapon maintains the solitary nature of the animal. Platypuses, he says, probably have territories, and the poison spur could be the defense...
...collection of chips and rocks that Schaff brought back has slowly yielded a Mesozoic mammal, and a distinctive feature of the animal is what appears to be a poison spur on the back foot. Schaff says of the spur that he is "groping for something to compare it with." Thus the platypus. Schaff and Jenkins have collaborated on the work, and amid the litter of clay and tools in the lab is at least one Ornithorhynchus Anatinus skeleton, on loan from the dark racks of the fifth floor...
...ARCHIVE ALONE in Harvard Square will serve as a spur for a $50-million Harvard Square development project that is vital to the welfare of all of Cambridge. Without it most of the MBTA subway tract will revert to the state--possibly leading to uncoordinated development of the Square's southwest sector...