Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another spur to Tarazi's activism was the newsthat a cousin had died in the uprising, beaten todeath by Israeli soldiers. He read about it inThe New York Times...
...response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already heavy administrative loads. Under this version, there would be little guarantee that departments with bad hiring records would improve their practices...
...Rumors of cheating on January final exams spur first-year B-School students to discuss creating an honor code...
Such considerations helped spur the rally last week even as governments | dumped billions of dollars onto foreign exchange markets in an effort to push the U.S. currency down. Traders continued to snap up dollars after Washington reported that, with exports up 7.4%, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $8.86 billion in March, down from $9.82 billion the previous month. A day later investors shrugged off the news that the Consumer Price Index rose a sharp 0.7% in April because the gain reflected a record 11.4% surge in gasoline prices that is not expected to recur...
...state coordinator for Massachusetts NOW and a former president of RUS, Ann Pellegrini '86, says she thinks the march will spur campus activism by getting younger students actively interested in campaigning for their rights...