Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These changes are bound to have an effect in the Senate, and you will be able to spur them along by supporting Mark Govoni September 18 in his primary fight against Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70 for the Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat. LoPresti has represented a district that includes East Boston, Winthrop, and part of Cambridge (which includes Harvard) for more than a decade, and he has become symptomatic of problems in the senate...
...spur faster action, the Federal Aviation Administration said last week it was preparing to dictate takeoff and landing schedules on a minute-by-minute basis at the airports that account for 76% of the delays-New York City's Kennedy and La Guardia, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver and Newark. In Denver, for example, there are 58 scheduled landings between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., although the airport's maximum is 30. The Government threat infuriated some carriers, which place much of the blame on shortages of fully qualified air-traffic controllers. One FAA official likened the airlines...
More than half of the country's industry is concentrated there, and seven out of ten banking transactions occur there. Yet every new plan to spur the transfer of business and government out of the capital is largely a recycling of some previous unfulfilled plan. "There have been about five decentralization programs in the past 20 years, and all of them failed because there was no political will to carry them out," says Social Democrat Sánchez...
...large share of corporate business is increasingly international, occurring at all hours of the day and night. A mere six hours of trading geared to Eastern time seems inadequate to accommodate the working hours of important industries and markets in Europe and Asia. There is also a competitive spur. Stock-trading firms that do business off the floors of the major exchanges do not keep the exchanges' hours and are attractive to big institutional investors, who do most of Wall Street's trading. Stockbrokers may not like it, though, when clients worrying about their investments in the middle...
...just the past six months, Western Europe's foreign trade has expanded by more than 10%, led chiefly by exports to the U.S. Rising profits have helped spur outlays for new plant and equipment, which are expected to grow by 4.4% this year and 5.7% in 1985, according to European Community calculations. Six months ago, Britain led the recovery, followed by West Germany. But now other countries are joining the trend-The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Even France and Italy, which stayed in recession longest, are showing symptoms of growth...