Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 12, 1963, Byron De La Beckwith aimed and fired his deer rifle at the Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a father of three. The murder quickly became a watershed in the history of the civil rights movement, a spur to greater national awareness both of the evil of racism and of the collective obligation to remedy...
...proudest of The Crimson when it points out the moral failings of the Harvard community and when it acts as a spur to the consciences of its readers. News judgment is similar to (but not identical to) a finely tuned sense of moral outrage. So it's been news over the last three years that Harvard didn't pay its clerical and technical workers enough for them to afford adequate child care...
...never want to live anywhere else," proclaimed the sales brochure for the 42 lots of the Whitewater project near Flippin in northern Arkansas. However, despite the scenic snapshots and the homey-but- hokey handwritten spiel, no one was buying into the forested real estate development. To spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch-style unit. When the buyer...
...Rauch, virtually fresh out of Harvard, and a few pals launched Cornerstone in 1986, the aim was "community theater" -- not some PTA revival of Blossom Time but updated classics performed mainly by residents of wherever the nomadic troupe temporarily settled. The hope was to bring local people together and spur a lasting drive among them for creative expression. Cornerstone's 21 mostly rural productions have mingled art and agitprop, valuing political virtue as much as professional standards. They reflect, however, a genuine aesthetic, a rough-hewn epic sweep...
...biggest factor will probably be consumer psychology. Lower interest rates always had the potential to spur the economy, but it took a shift in consumers' spending habits to make that potential real. "There's not such a drab picture of the future," says Beth Gaynor, a Milwaukee homemaker and mother of three. Though her husband held onto his job as a management- development consultant for a tool manufacturer throughout the recession, she says, for a long time they were "careful" with their money. No more: they have just finished remodeling their basement and now plan to equip it with...