Word: spurs
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...York ophthalmologist, makes no bones about where she stands. "I'm for it absolutely," she says. "The upper middle class pays a lot of dues. If they get a little break, what's the big deal?" Supporters of the change say lower rates would encourage more investment and spur greater turnover of holdings, thus leading to increased tax revenues. "More people would sell assets, and the U.S. Treasury would collect more taxes," says Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies at the conservative Cato Institute and author of a new study on the subject. "Every time the rate has been...
...Western center-right parties scrambled to form an unlikely coalition, after the Islamic-oriented Welfare Party won Turkey's parliamentary elections with 21% of the vote. Although Ciller's True Path Party and the Motherland Party have long been bitter foes, the victory by the Islamists was enough to spur the former enemies to try to cooperate in forming a government. All other major parties have rejected the idea of creating a coalition with Welfare...
...spur of the moment kind of thing. It had a prank-like feel to it," the first-year said. "We made a mistake. We didn't think the matter [through] and acted impulsively...
...course, these problems are merely symptomatic of the larger problem of these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated...
...prospect of the President's arrival in Belfast last week was itself a spur toward peace. Clinton's visit helped "concentrate the mind," in the words of British Prime Minister John Major, and thereby sparked a sudden agreement that gave the peace process renewed momentum...