Word: spurs
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Cell phones became merely the emblem of the extravagance to which the city folk so recklessly surrendered. Spur-of-the-moment meals at expensive restaurants and $100 water cooler rentals from HSA came as naturally as the phrase, “I’m blowing up.” But Dartboard is not cool enough to blow up. Paying monthly fees is not what Dartboard had in mind when he imagined getting a B.A. So Dartboard gives up his aspirations of joining the aristocratic majority of cell phone possessors and reluctantly endures his perpetual lowliness. Maybe it?...
Ideally, the new formation will spur a Crimson offense that must replace its two starting strikers—and leading goal-scorers—from last year...
...business confidence. Japan recently registered a spike in personal spending and business investment; the country may finish 2003 with 2% GDP growth, not roaring but better than previous expectations. Barring disasters such as a major recurrence of SARS, booming China expects 9% growth next year, which will help spur demand for goods made elsewhere in Asia. Not every region is out of the woods; Hong Kong, for example, still faces record high unemployment and a big deficit, and deflation still lurks in Japan. But "we do have a fundamental recovery," says Andy Xie, economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong...
...asylum from a war-crimes indictment. Jacques Paul Klein, the top U.N. envoy in Liberia, has urged Taylor to accept the offer. "Go while the getting is good," Klein says. Even Taylor's militia and congressmen from his own party say he should leave, arguing that his presence would spur on the rebels and risk his safety. His critics worry instead about what Taylor might do if he stays...
...little is happening and that, evidently, the U.S. is not serious about its so-called commitment to reconstruct Afghanistan," says NYU's Professor Rubin. A recent Council on Foreign Relations and Asia Society report, Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?, warns, "Failure to stem deteriorating security conditions and to spur economic reconstruction could lead to a reversion to warlord-dominated anarchy and mark a major defeat for the U.S. war on terrorism...