Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enormous Pains. Brando's stunning performance seemed to spur the entire cast. Coppola, working from the emotional inside of his subject, was able to succeed as few American film makers have in evoking the texture and variety of an ethnic subculture. He took enormous pains to project a believable period milieu, using old cars, plastering buildings with correctly dated posters and handbills, even making sure that such minute items as pencils and lipsticks were authentic. He and his cinematographer emulated the visual style of the period, eschewing zoom lenses, fast cuts and jarring closeups. They used many longer tableau...
...composed mainly of the construction and trucking firms, is also growing. The big three automakers produced 60% of the heavy trucks sold last year; the rest were turned out by International Harvester, White Motor Corp., Mack Trucks, Diamond Reo and other companies. The 7% investment tax credit has helped spur demand. So has the decline of train service, and the fact that 25,000 communities in the U.S. have no means of delivery service other than trucks. Industry leaders expect total sales to increase 50% by 1980 to $10 billion, a growth rate that not even the auto industry...
Rates Down. Prospects that renewed expansion now will really spur the economy are somewhat better. The expansion is being supported by fiscal policy, and Burns last week voiced a belief that businessmen and consumers are getting into a spending mood once more. The likely effect on interest rates is more problematic. Some are continuing to fall; Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, last week cut rates by about 1% on home-improvement and some personal loans...
...investment tax credit has done little to spur capital spending, largely because many U.S. plants are still operating well below capacity. Still, long-term penny pinching on private capital improvements has caused American producers to lose ground to their foreign rivals. By most measures, they spend greater shares of their gross national products on machinery and equipment than the U.S. does...
Thank you very much for the fine coverage you accorded our squash "exploits." Since the article and picture appeared, we have had many more inquiries about our women's squash program at Radcliffe--a true indication that a little publicity can do so much to spur women into active participation in sports...