Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staffer said she had no close friends during her freshman year. One day in the spring she and a girl down the hall walked over to Room 13 on the spur of the moment, to see "what went on down there...
Achieving even that degree of self-sufficiency will be staggeringly expensive. Participants in the New York conference estimated that a full-scale effort to spur development of alternate sources of energy, such as nuclear power and oil from shale, and reduce energy demand could cost an astounding $500 billion to $1 trillion over the next ten years. The money would be spent on federal outlays for research and development, subsidies to energy producers and the building of storage tanks to stockpile oil and natural gas. But the dangers of not proceeding are also high. Though U.S. energy supplies and demand...
Something about Richard Nixon has always seemed to spur his opponents on to unusually harsh attacks. During the whole Watergate affair, the prime thought was not on any real crime the President might have committed, but on how to "get Nixon." Well, they finally "got him," and it makes me sick...
Outside Wall Street, the lifting of uncertainty could spur some new spending by both consumers and businessmen. Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II wryly wondered what the President's problems "have to do with selling cars," but added that "generally speaking, there is a lack of confidence on the part of the consumers in this country, and we believe that it has affected car sales in 1974. We would hope this confidence could be rebuilt." Chairman Henry Walker Jr., of the Honolulu-based Amfac, Inc., says that, "with Nixon safely out of the way," his company plans to move...
...strong post-congress "fellowship" could spur such a reevaluation. For now, the participants provided simply for a 30-member "Continuation Committee" to carry on the congress's work...