Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should act safely all the time anyhow," argues Rob Teir, a gay activist in Washington. But human nature is such, strong data show, that most people cannot bring themselves to act safely all the time. A fair warning that they are about to enter a highly dangerous situation may spur people to take special precautions. The moral duty of those already afflicted, though, must be clearly articulated: being intimate without prior disclosure is like serving arsenic in a cake. And not informing previous contacts (or not helping public authorities trace them without disclosing your name) leaves the victims, unwittingly...
...spouses of infected hemophiliacs, have shown resistance to infection. But the Nairobi prostitutes, so frequently exposed to the virus for so many years, provide the strongest evidence yet that people can have a natural immunity to AIDS. If the cause of that protection can be identified, it could spur efforts to develop a vaccine...
Within a few years, this debacle was a laughing stock even in the Soviet Union itself; and yet, today, it is an idea which is again be enthusiastically touted as a spur of creativity. Where could such an outlandish failure of socialist statism find a new intellectual home? Where else, but the place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus...
...enter a spur-of-the-moment trip to Boston which led directly to a meeting with Harvard women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise, and Harvard has not only one of the top swimmers in the Ivy League and the Northeast, but one who once again is having fun in the pool...
...NAFTA failure in Congress would cause Mexico and Latin America to reassess the value of swallowing bitter economic reforms in the hope of gaining greater access to rich markets. It would also call into question the U.S. ability to deliver uncontroversial trade agreements and undermine U.S. efforts to spur economic growth through a new world-trade pact...