Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That may strike consumers as too gloomy a view, since the world is currently awash in a glut of oil that, according to some experts, may continue for a decade or more. The 1973 embargo and the 1979 supply interruption that followed the Iranian revolution helped spur reductions in demand and a spate of conservation measures. Despite a decade's growth in population, total domestic oil consumption today (15 million bbl. per day) is even lower than the level of 1973, an achievement not anticipated then. Autos made by the big three domestic manufacturers averaged roughly 12 m.p.g...
...Thus a spur to more Black candidacies for elected office and an assist to the death knell of Black voter apathy constitute important spinoffs from a Jesse Jackson presidential candidacy, thoroughly justifying it. These benefits over-shadow the concern of Jackson's detractors among Afro-American leaders like Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP and the National Urban League's John Jacob, among others, that, in Jacob's words--"the Black [presidential] candidate could very well turn out to be a spoiler--allowing... less desirable candidates to win primaries and perhaps even the nomination...
...United States must abandon its projectionist policies and increase its monetary aid to developing nations to spur worldwide economic recovery, the head of a major Asian bank said yesterday...
...support standing up to Russians by cutting off shipments of grain and high technology, it may cause a small sacrifice on our part, but what does it take to finally spur us into taking action that would check such Soviet atrocities--another massacre of 269 innocent individuals? Only in this way will the Soviet Union realize it can't shatter any and all human rights institutions with impunity. Let's stand up to this bully and make our schoolyard safer for all Christopher...
...Interior Secretary James Watt has been trying to sell frights to mine on federally controlled land. Environmentalists and some Western Governors and Democrats contend he will spur the mining of coal that the nation does not now need, at giveaway prices. On Aug. 3, a House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option...