Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Standard & Poor's Corp. downgraded the city's credit rating on certain notes and bonds from single A-minus to triple B-plus. That is an official assessment that is likely to cost the city millions of dollars in increased interest charges on new debt and spur higher interest costs for taxpayers. Moreover, it means a loss of prestige for Chicago, casting it into the same category as Cleveland and New York, cities that once flirted with bankruptcy...
...executive's most important task is to spur subordinates to peak performance. Grove emphasizes reducing what he calls an employee's CUA factor, for complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, to improve teamwork and increase productivity. When the CUA factor is unavoidably high, as when an outside executive is hired to run a troubled division, Grove says, the best advice is to cross your fingers and hope for the best...
...economist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1976 Wheat was elected to the Missouri general assembly. During his six-year tenure, he was elected chairman of the 19-member black caucus and pushed legislation benefiting his inner-city constituents, including a tax-abatement plan to spur rehabilitation of substandard housing. Says he: "I had a lot of frustrations and disappointments, but my idealism survived...
...price increases have helped spur the biggest new hit in the cigarette industry: generics. Sold in plain black-and-white or black-and-yellow packages, the no-name cigarettes have captured about 2.5% of the market in the past two years. Liggett, looking for a way to reverse its steadily declining share, was the first major company to start selling the generics. Paced by its bestselling Chesterfield, Liggett had about 25% of sales in the 1940s, but that fell to less than 3% by 1981. Says President K.v.R. Dey Jr.: "We were the smallest kid on the block." The company...
Growing calls for a consumption tax that would spur saving...