Word: spurs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hedge our bets by shooting as many options, by improvising a lot, so that when you’re in the editing room, you aren’t nailed down to the actual script,” Ferrell said. This sort of comedic creativity gives the film a spur-of-the-moment feel. “You try to take advantage of the cast, and that’s why you cast people like Will Arnett,” Ferrell said, rolling his eyes at his costar. “That’s why we try to have this...
...students dead and 16 wounded is shocking in its apparent randomness and bewildering in the myriad questions it leaves unanswered. Why did Steven Kazmierczak—a kind and intelligent former graduate student at NIU—open fire on a lecture hall full of undergraduate students? What could spur anyone to senseless killing? And perhaps most importantly, what could NIU have done—and what can any other university do—to prevent future tragedies like this one? In NIU’s time of mourning and questioning, our thoughts are with the university and the families...
...story "Fund To Spur Public Service" said that a donation received by the Kennedy School came from the foreign minister of Qatar. In fact, the gift, was from H.E. Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim Al Thani, who established the fund in honor of his late father, Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani. The elder Al-Thani, not his son, served as foreign minister of Qatar...
...political, social - are like aftershocks of an earthquake: you know they are coming, even if you're not quite sure when, or exactly how powerful, they will be. One, I'm certain, will be environmental. New Songjiang is supposed to be linked, by 2010, to central Shanghai when a spur on the light-rail system is completed...
...thought of that family frequently. People outside China always want to know what will spur political change, what will turn an authoritarian dictatorship to democracy. Conventional wisdom says it happens when a society develops a solid middle class with rising expectations. That, anyway, is the story of Taiwan and South Korea. But in China, my neighbors, even though they are often, in private, bitterly critical of the government, seem content to leave it well enough alone. Having made the Short March, they have a vested interest in stability...