Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tolbert, a Baptist minister who had served 20 years as vice president, made a degree of headway in reforming the top leadership after he assumed the presidency in 1971. Alarmed by an outbreak of rioting last year over a government proposal to raise the price of rice as a spur to production, he supported a constitutional amendment giving most tribal Liberians the right to vote for the first time. But this reform came too late to assuage a growing civilian opposition to his rule as well as deepening resentment in his own armed forces...
...concentration in the middle of a speech and wander through rambling, almost incoherent sentences. Now he raps out short, crisp remarks, sometimes punching at the air like a boxer for emphasis, and spices his delivery with sarcastic wit. Deriding Carter's claims that decontrol of oil prices will spur more domestic exploration for petroleum, he notes that Mobil several years ago used some of its rising profits to buy Montgomery Ward. He asks: "How much oil do you think they'll discover drilling in the aisles of Montgomery Ward department stores...
...much emphasis on stimulating consumer and business demand and paid too little attention to stimulating the production, or supply, of goods and services. Supply siders, such as Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Michael Evans, the president of a Washington-based economic advisory service, propose tax cuts for business to spur investment rather than just tax relief for consumers to heighten spending...
While a recent lack of hitting has caused some concern (the team batting average stands at .232 not including Wednesday's 1-0 loss to Boston College), the expected warm weather and big crowd should spur the Crimson...
Richard Bell, head of the national Energy Policy Information Committee, said communities had been successful in efforts to spur conservation in other states...