Word: spurs
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...generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars. We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases. We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation, and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world. Let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here...
...press office said in a statement concerning Sherley’s tenure case.Sherley contends that racism was a factor in not only his tenure decision, but also his treatment at MIT since he arrived.“I hope that what is happening at MIT will spur discussion at Harvard and other universities about how processes like tenure enable racism,” Sherley said yesterday. Sherley graduated from Harvard College in 1980 with a degree in biological sciences and said that the lack of tenured minority professors is a problem that pervades many top-tier academic institutions...
...comedy Little Miss Sunshine won the Best Ensemble award, beating Babel, Bobby, The Departed and Dreamgirls. Because Crash burst out off the pack last year with a SAG win in the same category, and upset Brokeback Mountain to take the Oscar for Best Picture, Sunshine's victory has to spur it at least the realm of Serious Speculation...
...After floating debris and oils ignited in 1969, the public outcry over this burning river in Ohio helped spur the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Conditions have improved, but the watershed remains an area of concern for the agency...
Morris remembered her roommate has a “whimsical” character who often put her spur-of-the-moment ideas into action. In one especially memorable example, she convinced friends to run through the streets of Boston to the John Hancock Tower at midnight...