Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khazei's vision of public service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...contract from the Indonesian government is part of a longstanding HIID involvement in several Indonesian government projects to spur rural development, improve its industrial and trade policies, and institute tax reform, HIID officials said yesterday...
...ranging from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...
...Education report titled A Nation at Risk. The survey sounded an alarm over the "rising tide of mediocrity" sweeping American schools. It warned that had this mediocrity been imposed by a foreign power, "we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Overnight, the document became a spur for nationwide school reform...
...well. The rest of the equation is simply regional politics: such fees would amount to a windfall for domestic producers in Super Tuesday states like Texas and Louisiana by allowing them to raise their prices to match the new cost of imported oil. True, oil-import fees would spur energy conservation. But so would the more direct approach of an increase in federal taxes on gasoline, which is on no candidate's deficit-reduction agenda...