Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already tried to improve UNESCO from within. The threat of a U.S. withdrawal is our only alternative and might spur UNESCO into reforming its leftist and nepotistic ways...
...eight days and a day of twelve hours, but the day itself was measured solely by the length of sunlight, so the units of time varied in different places and seasons. Not until medieval monks conceived an obligation to pray at fixed hours of the night did their need spur the invention of a mechanical clock that worked in the dark...
Workers claim that the auto companies are getting tougher in other ways, too. Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing." Says Bob Breece, president of the U.A.W. local at Chevrolet's Flint, Mich., motor division plant: "They come in and say, 'If you don't give concessions we're not going to give you this work or we're going to shut you down.' " Breece's plant is due to close in May or June of next year...
...should make clear that it will remain just that--an option. And in spite of the prediction figures, it should restrain its public enthusiasm for the Achievement Tests and be extra careful to look at the scores in light of students' high school backgrounds. Otherwise, the Harvard name could spur colleges across the nation to take a giant step backwards...
Yoshino, that many families have "no more big items to buy for the moment." The government announced a proposal last month to spur the economy with a $5 billion tax cut and $8.1 billion in new public works spending. Yoshino forecast that these measures might help lift Japan's growth rate...