Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...certain that the U.S. will be able to hold its own in the semiconductor contest. The possible applications of chips are limitless, and the potential market is so vast that there will be room for vigorous semiconductor industries in both the U.S. and Japan. The Japanese challenge will help spur American chipmakers to even greater technological achievement. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Dick Thompson/San Francisco and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
Reagan's high-stakes offer could spur resolution of the dangerous deadlock in Beirut. But there were rumblings at home and abroad last week that the risks might exceed the potential rewards. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent a letter to Reagan stating that if the U.S. sent its Marines to Lebanon, the U.S.S.R. might counter with moves of its own in the region. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee called President Reagan to express his concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad...
...that the credibility, and possibly the survival, of his government was hanging on the success of those efforts. Coming only eight months after an 8.5% devaluation against the mark, last week's realignment was the turning point in the 13-month-old attempt by the Socialist government to spur economic growth and curb unemployment through government spending-an approach diametrically opposed to that of the Reagan Administration. Said Yvon Gattaz, the peppery president of France's National Council of Employers: "No developed country can, without damage, go against the anti-inflation policies practiced in the rest...
Consumers have reacted to past tax cuts by stepping up their purchases of autos, refrigerators, clothing and other goods. For example, they spent about 80% of the $9 billion in personal tax relief in 1964-65, setting cash registers ringing and helping spur a robust expansion. The expectation is that the American public this year, just as in 1964, will eventually spend most...
That sounds to us like a great bargain, one that would not be weakened substantially by the additional expenditure of $50,000 to safeguard human lives. Such a grant might also spur other private donations to improve Arboretum safety. The University should recognize its responsibility to local residents, and again put aside its austere accounting principles in favor of common sense...