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Signs outside the campaign office weren't trumpeting the polls that showed Obama well ahead of McCain across the country. Instead, they flashed a Zogby International poll released over the weekend that has McCain with a two-point lead. It's meant to spur Obama ground workers like Realin in their unlikely effort to put the Illinois Senator over the top in a state that hasn't voted for a northern Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt...
...said that he is confident that a hospital’s competitive streak will spur its efforts to beat “that hospital down the street...
...methods of making their views known to the community as a whole. The didactic and condescending tone of Kidd’s electronic reminder did more to undermine the gravity of the content at stake—a very serious violation of College regulations—than to spur a real discussion about free speech and the openness of dialogue on campus. We hope that in the future, a more serious discussion of the problems of vandalism can be effected by involving House administrators and student groups in the process, rather than by filling up yet another slot...
...agreed with either of them,” said audience member Benjamin A. Lerner ’11. “I thought Professor Pinker’s arguments were a little more precise.” Though no conclusion was reached, the debate did spur discussion of rarely-broached topics. “The soul as a separate entity from the body is something that not too many people outside religious circles speak about these days,” Wolpe said...
...package, he embraced even more sweeping reforms than the IMF called for. By the time the storm had passed, some of South Korea's biggest companies had disappeared. Mighty Daewoo, one of the Big Four chaebol, was dismembered and its founder prosecuted. But others used the crisis as a spur to tough action. Samsung Electronics boss Lee Kun Hee, his back to the wall, browbeat top executives into rethinking the company. A decade later, Samsung is a global powerhouse with design and technology sophistication that was impossible to imagine at the time. Hyundai Motors, too, endured the crucible and emerged...