Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesters, led by Daniel Ellsberg '52, had trained for weeks in a plan to blockade three entrances to the plant. However, about two dozen federal marshals and security guards from Rockwell International were waiting to greet them at the plant's east and west gates and at a railroad spur leading into the facility. Ellsberg was arrested at the railroad tracks, just as he had been while protesting against the plant exactly a year...
...frustrated left-wingers bent on changing the world. That particular theory overlooks the simple, quite basic fact that student politics at Harvard were, until the Strike, familiarly moderate; it took the pervasive horror of the war in Vietnam, and the more immediate horror of the University Hall bust, to spur the campus into activism...
...declining oil production and rising dependence on price-gouging foreign suppliers. The new plan that he outlined in his plainspoken, 23-minute Oval Office address last week was far simpler-and much more likely to be effective. Henceforth, old-fashioned marketplace economics is to be the basic engine to spur not only fuel saving but also a much needed, intensified search for new domestic supplies. But as Carter promised, the change will be painful: during the coming months and years, U.S. oil prices will leap up, forcing consumers to dig even deeper into their pockets to pay for gasoline...
Board members pointed out that an amendment to balance the budget would straitjacket the economy, particularly during a recession, when deficit spending often is prudent to spur a recovery. Otto Eckstein noted that because tax revenues fall during a recession, Congress would have to raise taxes in order to balance the budget, and that would bury the economy even deeper...
Nevertheless, what followed was two hours of charge-trading, screaming, and hurried conferences in the aisles. Most club members suspected that something was wrong, but lacking a plan they voted for candidates on the spur of the moment. Driscoll was destined to be the first victim of the angry club members. They quickly nominated and elected Skip Stern '81 who called Stanton "hopelessly ineffective as president" and said Driscoll "is a liar if he denies that a slate exists." He later withdrew his comments about Driscoll and nominated him for another position. Stern resigned his position as treasurer last Wednesday...