Word: spurs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congress weighs a plan to spur investment by speeding depreciation
...spectacle of death and its ravages. But he cites interesting evidence gathered from people who have slipped toward death before being rescued. Their testimony suggests a peaceful experience. When death is imminent, the brain apparently realizes that pain can no longer be useful as an alarm to spur escape. So the pain is turned off and replaced by a kind of blissful surrender. Thomas writes: "If I had to design an ecosystem in which creatures had to live off each other and in which dying was an indispensable part of living, I couldn't think of a better...
Canada's Dempster Highway, named after a turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces...
Last week's FCC ruling could spur a move in Congress to deregulate both cable and broadcast...
...BUSINESS FACULTY is unlikely to sit down to review its curriculum again in the near future. This leaves Bok's suggestions in limbo, making his report more a spur to discussion than a set of concrete reform proposals. Even so, Business School administrators should take the report as a sign that others within and without the University are concerned about the strength of the school's commitment to ethics. Witness the flurry of media attention earlier this year over a course in "Competitive Decision-Making" taught by Howard Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics, which drew fire from the Wall...