Word: spurs
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...Corporation reminiscent of the Energy Security Corporation that Carter had initially proposed, the bill also contains a nearly $6 billion grab bag of energy odds and ends. Included are $3 billion for various solar and conservation programs over the next three to four years, $850 million in subsidies to spur the commercial production of ethanol, which can be mixed with gasoline to make gasohol and $600 million for biomass energy, such as that derived from turning municipal garbage into fuel. Finally, the bill included a provision to fill the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. For months the Department of Energy...
...business cooperation and, most of all, slumping productivity brought on by too little investment in research and equipment. Among the most popular suggested solutions: more labor-business-government dialogues and more effort to halt the flood of regulation. The participants favored cuts in business and personal income taxes to spur individual savings and corporate investment, even if it meant that the federal budget would remain in deficit...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will help spur Cambridge's expected economic resurrection. "Cambridge on the letterhead is an asset to a lot of companies," Vickery says, adding that other corporations' executives also teach. And the kind of business that research universities lure--high technology, research and development--are the growth industries of the next 25 years. The state's High Technology Council predicts 70 per cent of new jobs created in Massachusetts in the '80s will be tied to high technology. With inflation making it cheaper to expand into previously developed areas, and with the advantages...
...itself. But there are similarities from the past. Theodore Sorensen, John Kennedy's aide, recalls that in the first hours of the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy was angry. "It fired him," said Sorensen. J.F.K. launched a Government-wide review of his people and U.S. capabilities. It helped spur him on the race to the moon, and he sought a meeting in the summer of 1961 with Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy would not be humiliated or despondent. He vowed to win. Without the same superiority of power and with the crisis so distant, Carter has it tougher. The country...
...Fuel efficiency standards for automobiles established in 1975 helped spur the U.S. auto industry's shift toward the production of smaller, lighter cars that get significantly better mileage...