Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truly professional management at the top level. Indira realizes, however, that any serious tampering with property rights could antagonize the moderates and the moneymen who are the source of her party's strength, despite its socialist platform. Mrs. Gandhi is also aware that she must find ways to spur public and private investing...
Hapless Gamblers. Not filled bottles, but empties. The fancy packaging (animal, bird and political figurines), initiated in the mid-'50s by the James B. Beam Distilling Co. as a spur to liquor sales, boosted sales all right, but not just by drinkers. The bottles turned out to be every bit as intoxicating, so much so that a company called Grenadier is now in business primarily to serve "the Connoisseur Collector with the finest examples of porcelain soldier figurines [bottles] available anywhere in the U.S." Moreover, unlike their contents, the bottles have a long-term value: Jim Beam...
After the fight, Hunstmen admitted it was the first time he had ever had any gloves on and that the whole thing was a spur-of-the-moment idea. "When I got knocked down, everything went out," he said...
Even when drunk one day last summer he entered an AAU meet two-mile on the spur of the moment to see what he could do. Powlison, running barefoot on a cinder track in 90-degree heat, led for a mile before dropping...
Some of Brustein's arguments against the Living Theatre, for instance, are valid. A theatre which rejects the traditions of the dramatic art in favor of a nebulous, ephemeral attempt to draw its audience into spur-of-the-moment participation is not creating art; whatever sort of internalized art the participants may think they feel, they have not, and can not, transfer it beyond themselves into any permanent form, and permanence is the soul of art. Yet the belittling manner in which Brustein talks about the Living Theatre and its directors, and for that matter about the Yale faculty...