Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than 6% during the preceding decade. A large part of this growth has resulted from the fortuitous jump in world prices of commodities, such as sugar, lumber, copper and gold, exported by the Philippines. But Marcos' policies of encouraging foreign investment have also been a powerful spur to growth. He has lured American and Japanese businessmen to the islands by liberalizing monetary and credit policies and allowing foreign firms to repatriate all of their profits...
This upset victory seemed to spur on both Lindner and Ingard in the semi-final found, for they dispatched with amazing ease the Princeton team of Dutton and Fisher...
...Under a state "vacancy decontrol" law enacted in 1971, rent controlled apartments in New York City are automatically "decontrolled" as soon as the tenant moves out. This law has resulted in sky-rocketing rents in decontrolled apartments. But according to the commission's report, vacancy decontrol has "failed to spur" landlords to make major improvements in their buildings. In fact, the level of major improvements has fallen off significantly since vacancy decontrol began...
Throughout the fall of 1973, the poor whites got increasingly restless, feeling that the University was being unresponsive to their problems. Last December, one of the group gave The Crimson a copy of the August letter to Bok, hoping that the publicity would spur the administration to action. The group plans to hold a sit-in in Bok's office to protest the exclusion of whites from the health program, and is considering filing a class action suit on behalf of all poor whites against the program...
...pump fast enough to make up for the Arab cutback. Instead, they have cannily held output to roughly ordinary levels while sharply scaling up prices. That strategy is resulting in a kind of forced, massive transfer of wealth from the rich oil-burning countries that may spur economic growth in the mainly underdeveloped producing nations more than formal foreign aid ever could...