Word: spurs
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Teach-In organizers stressed that Harvard already contains a multitude of people pursuing often similar goals, but through different means, without communicating. Hopefully, this week will spur students to think about the role of activism in their own lives and by doing so, help them to connect with others who share similar goals. As one organizer put it, "A lot of people don't recognize that you don't have to live, breathe and die activism here to [participate]." Concerned individuals need not devote the whole of their time to an organization or a cause to make a meaningful contribution...
...series of fresh steps to stimulate Japan's economy and stanch the banks' hemorrhaging. But what will those actions be? And will they provide strong enough medicine? A source close to the Prime Minister says it is "impossible" for the government to offer the kind of tax cuts that spur solid economic growth. "He will be able to offer a measure of confidence for the banking system," says the insider. "But we will not see economic growth for quite some time." Says former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, with characteristic understatement: "We will muddle through...
Morris tries, almost successfully, to balance the amount of commentary and observation--political and social--with a fair amount of cute little anecdotes about her spur-of-the-moment picnics on the Swiss hillsides or her random run-ins with Margaret Thatcher on a busy street...
...feisty five-term mayor of Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...
Fagen said he hoped more publicity about the problem would spur the faculty and the administration to take more action...