Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shearer's performance did not seem to spur the rest of the team...
...help spur sales, the McDougals convinced the Clintons that a model home should be built on the property. McDougal arranged the purchase of an exceedingly modest two-bedroom prefabricated house for a little over $20,000; installation on Lot 13 brought the costs to over $28,000. Whitewater had its first home...
Pilbeam's appointment may also spur the move to bring ethnic studies to Harvard...
...percent on all income earned above $36,000. At the same time, his proposal would eliminate most deductions, like the home mortgage and charitable deduction, and exempt from all taxation unearned income derived from savings and investment. These changes, Forbes claims, would greatly simplify the tax code and spur economic growth through supply-side forces. This growth, moreover, would ensure that the federal budget deficit would not increase since the additional revenue derived from a larger economy would more than compensate for the loss in revenue that would result from a flat tax of only 17 percent...
...reality the consequences of Forbes' flat tax do not quite conform to his supply-side rhetoric. Admittedly the flat tax would spur economic growth. By reducing the income tax rate to 17 percent and eliminating the progressive nature of the tax, Forbes' proposal would increase the returns to labor and thereby increase the incentives to work. In other words, the average person would keep more of any additional earned income than he would previously and, as a result, would supply more labor. At the same time, the elimination of all taxes on investment income would encourage people to save...