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