Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billion Neighborhood. To spur him on, there is the lesson of what is happening in the current fiscal year, when federal spending may well work out to total more than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than...
...every year since, the award has served as an emotional spur for revenge, and coincidentally or not, has worked quite well...