Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign is that few if any Americans defend the system as it is. From the President to the lowliest felon, the nation wants a humane system that truly curbs crime. This is the year of the prisons, the year when Congress may double federal spending (to $300 million) to spur local reform, the year when something may finally get clone and Americans may well heed Dostoevsky's goading words...
...gunslinger. Last November, when Syrian General Hafez Assad toppled his Baathist rivals and took over, Gaddafi jetted into Damascus to inspect the new leader. He demonstrated his approval by leaving a check for $10 million. Like a political jack-in-the-box, Gaddafi has flown, unannounced, to Egypt for spur-of-the-moment meetings with Nasser and to Algeria for discussions with President Houari Boumedienne. When a group of Sudanese officials arrived recently in Tripoli, he kept them waiting for two days before he showed up, in shirt sleeves and sandals, to lecture them on the evils of Communism...
...eastern end, the road would provide a gateway into Canada and a link to deepwater ports. At its other end, it would connect with highways leading to New York City and the Middle West. It would offer faster and cheaper oil deliveries to the communities it served, and should spur business and employment by hurrying the flow of raw materials from New England to other industrial areas. Winding through long stretches of spectacular scenery, the new road could also stimulate tourism. It would reduce driving time from New York City to northern New England resort areas by as much...
...cause water pollution. Washington, for its part, plans to set new noise regulations on industrial equipment and will press for new bans against dumping wastes in the oceans. What 1970 proved is that the environment issue cannot be dismissed as a fad. By changing national values, it may well spur a profound advance in U.S. maturity and harmony with nature, the parent of human life...
Meaty Bone. The Russians last week seemed to be trying to meet the conditions. On short notice, they brought together leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations in East Berlin for their third summit in a year. Plainly, the spur-of-the-moment powwow was designed chiefly to apply fraternal persuasion to East Germany's Walter Ulbricht to accept a Berlin agreement...