Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smuggle $14,000 worth of baby eels from the mainland for the purpose of financing seditious activities. Huang denied being an eel trafficker, and convincingly argued that his only goal as Formosa 's publisher was to build a legitimate opposition party in Taiwan whose function would be to "spur the government to improve...
Over the years Church has cultivated some techniques to enhance his impressive productivity and spur his prose. To conquer writer's block, for instance, he sometimes paces TIME'S corridors for miles at a stretch. His explanation: "I hope that once my legs begin to move, the mind will follow." In his Business section days, Church followed a less conventional but surefire ritual to get his journalistic juices flowing: a pre-cover-story haircut. Alas, he laments, "I've had to abandon that practice since moving to Nation. Cover stories come more frequently here...
...Republicans want to slash spending sharply enough to leave room within a balanced budget for immediate "supply side" tax cuts, such as more generous depreciation deductions for business. This would spur savings and investment, which they contend is needed to reverse the recent drop in productivity, a major cause of inflation. Carter agrees that investment-prompting tax cuts are necessary, but he argues that they can come only after the budget is safely into surplus...
...deficits, and 2) to the extent that a cutback in driving reduces oil imports, the U.S. will make itself less vulnerable to petroleum price increases that the OPEC cartel may decree. But the fee will not spur all that much conservation: a reduction of only 100,000 bbl. a day the first year, by Carter's estimate, in petroleum imports that now average 8 million bbl. a day. In order to prompt really significant conservation, a gasoline tax on the order of the 50?-per-gal. bite that Republican John Anderson has been proposing might well be required...
Strictly speaking, the California ruling need not have broad implications for writers and publishers, since it came only from a lower state court and thus sets no precedent that courts elsewhere must follow. Nonetheless, many authors and publishers are understandably worried that it could spur similar suits involving other works of fiction, which in the past have rarely been the targets of libel actions. The Supreme Court's decision to let the ruling stand, argues Vidal, is thus in effect "a hunting license, a declaration of open season on almost any sort of novelist...