Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter expects to strike no major bargains with López Portillo. He hopes only to spur negotiations-on oil and natural gas, immigration and trade policies. Carter, says one adviser, "must restore a sense of mutual trust and cooperation. He's got to change the background music, get rid of the rancor and put the whole relationship back on a candid, open and honest basis." Even these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long...
...than he was when he won the Triple Crown, and he weighs only 104. Some have suggested that after Goodman had a heart attack in July, he stopped hustling for good mounts; and that after Cauthen injured his knee in an August spill, he stopped trying so hard to spur them on. Now Laffit Pincay Jr., the rider who replaced Cauthen on Affirmed for the Strub Stakes, wonders if The Kid is not "trying too hard...
...fines for violations, but leave it to industry to devise the least costly methods of cleaning up; this would be more sensible than specifying in great detail what equipment should be installed and how plants should be modified, as regulators often do now. Tax policies could be revised to spur investment. Economists quarrel about whether further cuts in taxes on capital gains and corporate profits, more generous investment tax credits or faster depreciation write-offs would be most effective. Probably some combination of all these approaches will be needed...
...credits for R. and D. spending are another possibility. In addition, even those economists who insist on the importance of reducing federal spending make an exception for R. and D. outlays; their potential benefits far outweigh the costs. Several economists suggest that the Government put up matching funds to spur university research programs into ways to improve productivity of service industries?dry cleaners and restaurants, for example?in which most companies are too small to undertake any significant R. and D. That approach has enormously increased the productivity of farming...
...varied experiences are precious to him--hence the diaries. "The journals are neither literature nor works of art," he says, "but simply graphic narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make dull journals, and who would willingly author a ho-hum diary...