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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While the financial industry is in tatters, Wall Street's near implosion kindled concern over the dangers of unfettered free markets - a fear that could spur demand for those able to gauge and repair the damage. "It looks like we're going to go into more of a regulatory environment, so that will help accountants and lawyers," Challenger says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Bright Spots Amid Rising Unemployment | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

Signs outside the campaign office weren't trumpeting the polls that showed Obama well ahead of McCain across the country. Instead, they flashed a Zogby International poll released over the weekend that has McCain with a two-point lead. It's meant to spur Obama ground workers like Realin in their unlikely effort to put the Illinois Senator over the top in a state that hasn't voted for a northern Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

This is not the first time the Republicans have relied upon robo-calls to spur voters to the polls. In 2000, a rallying cry was Elian Gonzalez, the boy who got sent back to Cuba with his father. Elian was a hot-button topic with Cuban Americans who fought to keep the boy with relatives in Miami, and Republicans emphasized his case in robo-calls. "It's a predictable tactic," Coffey says. "Yes, there's some effectiveness. Whether it's too little, too late, I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...said that he is confident that a hospital’s competitive streak will spur its efforts to beat “that hospital down the street...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Evaluate Patient Satisfaction | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...methods of making their views known to the community as a whole. The didactic and condescending tone of Kidd’s electronic reminder did more to undermine the gravity of the content at stake—a very serious violation of College regulations—than to spur a real discussion about free speech and the openness of dialogue on campus. We hope that in the future, a more serious discussion of the problems of vandalism can be effected by involving House administrators and student groups in the process, rather than by filling up yet another slot...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Poster Wars | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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