Word: spurs
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...that the Princeton Review is expanding their focus to include environmental concerns, and I think it will help put these issues on students’ radars,” she said. While Heinzerling said that a quantitative score can only do so much, she added that it could spur colleges and universities to expand their green initiatives. “Hopefully this will also serve as a positive motivator for colleges to do more environment-friendly things,” she said...
...some, being waitlisted by their dream school can be a blessing in disguise. It can spur them to take a gap year or to take a closer look at their other academic options. If Vincent and Davison don't get into their preferred schools, they'll both go to University of Texas; Brown-Campello would go to University of Vermont; and Simon thinks she'd attend Princeton or Stanford. Kavya Rao, a freshman in the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Medical Scholars Program who was waitlisted at Harvard last spring, thinks they will be just fine. "I would...
...pause in Sadr City is unlikely to spur many hopes among Sadr City residents for an end to the fighting. Baghdadis of all the city's neighborhoods know by now that periods of peace are often followed by waves of bloodletting. And the dispute between al-Sadr and the Iraqi and American troops pressing into his stronghold seems only to be deepening, making the possibility of renewed fighting all but inevitable unless one or both sides begins searching anew for some sort of political compromise...
...makes any of those things work together. The album plods along on autopilot for six straight tracks of virtually indistinguishable twin-guitar artillery, with doses of horn flourish applied intermittently in a futile attempt to enliven the record’s blandness. “The Switch and the Spur,” “Hold Up,” and “Top Yourself” all feel like second-rate Stripes songs, and Benson’s vocal and instrumental contributions to each are inoffensive at best and crippling at worst. The lyrics yawn, their pasteboard...
...biofuels and the growth of the middle class in developing nations like China and India, corn prices have risen to $5.53 per bushel, an increase of more than 100 percent over 2006 levels. These gains, along with similar surges in the prices of wheat and rice, are poised to spur American agriculture to a record $92.3 billion in revenue this year. To top it all off, American farmers are still receiving $13 billion every year in subsidies from the federal government.If that seems strange to you, then you’re not alone. A long list of luminaries ranging from...