Word: spurs
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Prompt payers have also bedeviled AT&T's Universal Card subsidiary and helped spur the recent resignation of David Hunt as president of the unit. Analysts say roughly 60% of the Universal Card's 18.3 million accounts were held by convenience users who took advantage of free lifetime memberships and other benefits while paying their bills in full each month. Industrywide, only 36% of cardholders pay off their balances each month. Although AT&T officials say they have no plans to dock card users for paying up, the company is pondering other ways to persuade the holders to take...
...sympathy. This has been quite a gesture on the part of Germans." Hosting the refugees, who are universally on social welfare, has cost the states about $10 billion since the first refugees arrived four years ago. To balance these concerns, Germany is beginning a gentle push to spur repatriation. "I think Germany wants to send the point psychologically: 'You have to leave sometime.' But the states do not want to send them back by force," says Schoenthal. Some states have sponsored "orientation trips" to allow refugees a chance to scout conditions at home without losing their refugee status...
HUCTW leaders say they released the report to spur community discussions...
...Sometimes it's hard to initiate discussion of racial issues," Byndloss said, adding that she felt the films could spur conversation...
Kennedy had the Cold War to spur a nation to action. We don't have that, but we can create a war on the educational front. California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson this year implemented a law requiring elementary school classes to contain no more than 20 students; Clinton should do the same nationally. He should up the ante on science and math education, selling bonds to support funding just as if we were trying to best the Russians in space...