Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production, jobs and incomes, and inflation is at an eleven-year low. Deficits are a problem to which the President cannot afford to appear indifferent, but his advisers doubt that they will weigh decisively with many voters, unless the red ink threatens to choke off the recovery or spur a new round of inflation. Says Ed Rollins, director of the Reagan-Bush '84 Committee: "I don't think they can beat us on economic issues...
...urban decay that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both traveled there to voice concern and promise federal assistance that never quite seemed to materialize. Instead, the development organization, noting the success of a few tenants' association takeovers and restorations, concluded that owner occupancy of South Bronx buildings would spur reconstruction. The first 90 homes have already been sold, more than half to South Bronx residents...
...last year had a deficit of about $40 billion, and could incur a shortfall of twice that much in 1984. Mast also noted that the less developed countries were finally emerging from two years of recession and financial crisis, a situation that should help to spur world trade...
When asked to prescribe some policies to spur Western Europe to faster economic expansion, the board found broad consensus. Giersch led off by pointing to the success...
...scold to the Mac group, which has grown from 50 in 1982 to 100 today and has an average age of 28. He often spent nights and weekends hovering around the lab as his chief hardware engineer, Burrell Smith, 28, designed five vastly different versions of the computer. To spur his team, Jobs staged frequent parties, sushi dinners and seaside retreats, presented medals to workers, and rewarded the most valuable engineers and programmers with Apple stock options tucked into thin gray envelopes. He embossed their names on the inside of the machine and teased them with promises of fame when...