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Word: spurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fewer kids, higher costs spur a scramble for funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Private Colleges Cry Help! | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Natural gibberellin governs the growth and reproductive activity of plants, stimulating cells to divide and expand. Farmers cultivate a certain type of fungus to produce large quantities of the chemical. The use the extract to spur agricultural production and produce oversized fruits and vegetables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Synthetic Hormone Stimulates Plant Growth | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...retirement plus" accounts should spur much-needed saving. And if poorer workers take full advantage of the tax credits, they could wind up with a $200,000 nest egg at retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Down the Debate On 'Saving' Social Security | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Next, Carter dispatched Vance to the Middle East in an effort to spur Egypt and Israel into reaching final agreement on a peace treaty by the Dec. 17 goal set at the Camp David summit. That deadline was not to be met. Together, Egypt and the U.S. arrived at compromises on the few remaining points that were not settled at Camp David. But the Israelis rejected the proposals with an intemperate rebuke that threw into doubt both the immediate future of peace negotiations and of U.S.-Israeli relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Stuns the World | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...September, Democrats Russell Long and Al Ullman, chairmen of the Senate and House tax-writing committees, proclaimed the era of loophole-closing reform to be over. From now on, they asserted, tax laws will be "economically oriented" packages of cuts designed to relieve the ravages of inflation and spur job-creating investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979 Outlook: Recession | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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