Word: spurs
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...sometimes more, prejudiced than whites. Anyone who spends his formative years being humiliated and ostracized on the basis of his ancestry (as Jackson was) almost inevitably will become severely race-conscious. The individual bitterness provoked by experiences with discrimination may or may not surface and may even spur constructive attempts to combat bigotry; but it will survive, nonetheless, within the heart...
...balance the budget at the same time grew out of his fascination with supply-side economic theory, a doctrine that puts great faith in the power of tax cuts to spur growth. Reagan's supply-side enthusiasts, who were concentrated in the Treasury Department under the leadership of Secretary Regan, realized that tax cuts might open up a big deficit temporarily, but they believed that a spurt of growth in the economy would make up for part of the shortfall: more income and profits would mean more taxes for the Treasury. Cuts in Government spending, they thought, could close...
Madison, of course, is referring to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan and the candidacy of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Reagan gets liberals angry; Jackson is actively trying to appeal to a class of voters traditionally underrepresented in the voting population. Together, they are helping spur one of the largest get-out-the-vote efforts in recent history. Not since the succession of marches in the South that prompted the voting Rights Act of 1965 has there been such avid interest in voter registration. While traditional groups like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP...
Since his victory, Mitterrand has slowed down the atomic program, although he has approved plans to start two new nuclear plants this year. Mitterrand is pressing ahead despite predictions that France may not need all the electricity that the nuclear reactors could generate. To spur demand for atomic power, the state-run electric company is offering low prices to businesses that switch from oil and gas heat to electricity. Currently, petroleum accounts for 46.5% of France's total energy consumption, and nuclear reactors supply 23%. According to government projections, by the year 2000, nuclear power will provide...
...find yourself remembering what it was like when on the spur of the moment you could just yell to your wife that you were going down to the drugstore and get a magazine. You can't do that any more. I made up a joke and told about the first week after I left the Governor's office...