Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Carolina ghettos, he believes that generous Government welfare payments discourage work and foster an attitude of dependency. Says he: "The poor choose leisure not because of moral weakness, but because they are paid to do so. In order to succeed the poor need most of all the spur of their poverty...
...prove a passing fad. Others are leary of higher insurance rates and injury claims-even though in most places the machine is surrounded by hefty cushioning, and riders are required to sign waivers absolving the owners from responsibility for injury. The very prospect of danger can be a potent spur. Peter Szymanski, 26, a computer technician from Gardner, Mass., took such a bad fall at Boston's Celebration that he had to nurse twelve stitches under his cowboy hat. "It hasn't scared me," he shrugs, relishing his moment of glory. "I knew I was going...
...voices. BBC reports are valued for their objectivity, but many Americans are also fascinated by the propaganda programs that Radio Moscow directs to the U.S. In the past few weeks Soviet announcers have been warning of the darkening "world situation" and denouncing "influential Western politicians who have decided to spur on the arms race...
...relatively stable oil prices since the 1979 crisis may have lulled Americans into complacency, but the authors repeatedly-and aptly-stress that any number of international tensions could spur a new energy catastrophe here in a matter of mere weeks. "The legion of threats to oil supplies is ominous. The potential for the unexpected is very great," according to contributor Gray Samore...
...steel U.S. consumers and muffle and embargo. Diversifying Western imports would also weaken its impact. Standby lines of credit for importing nations would ease inflation's increase in the aftermath of a cut-off. And coordinated international demand restraint and stockpile sharing, run by an effective international agency, would spur consumer solidarity against OPEC and equalize Western suffering...