Word: spurs
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...these, but school districts should also find more creative ways to avoid deficits. The recession should provide an opportunity for administrators to go beyond the tried-and-true remedies of property-tax hikes and layoffs. New techniques, including efficiency analyses of individual schools, are needed. Moreover, the recession should spur those outside the public-school system to think of ways they can help. Students, at Harvard and elsewhere, should view the budget shortfalls as a call to serve their communities by volunteering at schools. Private foundations should also look inward and begin working to rebuild the American education system...
...stop 'til you get to 1929." At almost the same hour, Bill Gross, the undisputed king of the fixed income world and chief of investments at Pimco stated "the U.S. may slump into a 'mini depression' unless policy makers spend trillions of dollars to spur growth." He did not make the distinction between a "mini depression" and one of normal size but his comments were, nonetheless, alarming...
Russia needs foreign companies to plug a huge hole in Putin's economic policies. During his first term, Putin introduced modern tax and corporation laws. But he failed to spur the development of a business infrastructure that would enable Russia to shake its overreliance on energy and metals. Now, as the crisis starts to bite, the Kremlin is reacting by increasing its control over broad swaths of the economy. Through the state-controlled banks, it is bailing out selected business executives who are having trouble paying their debts--including Oleg Deripaska, a metals tycoon who until recently was Russia...
...Bush Administration's effort to press reluctant European allies to admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. But Russia also has a direct interest in the outcome in Afghanistan. Moscow has made clear that a NATO failure in Afghanistan would be a disaster for Moscow, because a Taliban victory would spur an Islamist challenge all along Russia's southern flank. Better to have NATO stop the jihadists than to have to rely on Russian troops...
...fiscal stimulus bill is intended to create new jobs and spur the economy out of the current recession as well as promote long-term growth and development. The combined $6.5 billion of funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation that the package contains will be useful in promoting both of those goals...