Word: spurs
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KERRY Whereas Bush tries to use tax policy to spur growth, Kerry sees it as a tool of social intervention. His main proposal would raise taxes for those earning more than $200,000 a year and use that money to fund tax credits for college tuition and child care. Kerry takes a further swipe at offshore outsourcing with a proposal to start taxing corporate income earned in other countries...
...brake on domestic consumer spending, which Korea badly needs to boost to revive its economic growth. Recent data suggests that South Korea may be entering a period of "stagflation," in which slowing economic output is accompanied by rising costs. The ruling Uri Party has proposed tax cuts to help spur domestic consumer and corporate spending. But export growth slowed to less than 30% year on year in August, making it less likely that the country can reach this year's target GDP growth of 5%. In this precarious situation, a spike in oil prices might well tip the country into...
...said. "I'm not here to win first place. I'm here to show that in Cape Verde, we don't have good conditions to train, but maybe if we had better conditions, we would have better gymnastics." Mongolia's Otgonbayar, too, hoped her last-place finish might spur on more marathoners in her native land. "Our country is very big," she says. "We have lots of space to train for the marathon." Motion doesn't get any more triumphal than the descendants of Genghis Khan racing through the grasslands, in pursuit of the true Olympic spirit...
...participate in the formal nomination of a presidential candidate, hear the best rhetoric an opposition party had to offer or gawk at Beltway celebs. Often, it seemed just being in the corridors abutting the floor of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) was enough. Certainly, it was enough to spur a healthy trade in the many-colored stiff paper passes which granted varying levels of convention access to their bearers...
...been living in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was a troubling sign of how freely al-Qaeda continues to operate in the kingdom--and of the deadly threats facing the many foreigners (including 35,000 Americans) who live there. But many believe that the atrocity may finally spur the Saudi government to take more aggressive action against extremists. Johnson's murder was the latest in a rash of seemingly coordinated attacks that have killed 24 foreigners in the past month. Responsibility for the terror spree was claimed by Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, 31, believed to be al-Qaeda...