In future, it will give a spur to the domestic manufacture of anything needing large amounts of energy.America's work-out is not finished.
The belief that faster trains would give a spur to regional economies – put at £2.3 billion in Yorkshire alone by the West and South Yorkshire passenger transport executives – goes alongside concern at a 'London imbalance' of transport spending in general.
In the longer term, a broader acceptance of the NCLB Act may also give a spur to those who want to introduce even greater accountability in the shape of vouchers that would give parents the power to spend their education dollars where they want to.On September 24th, a budget bill was introduced into the Senate that included money for a small voucher experiment in the District of Columbia.
The Arlington Group, a coalition of some 60 pro-family groups, began with an informal meeting of 23 leaders in Arlington, Virginia, in May 2003, but it was given a spur by a Massachusetts court's decision to uphold gay marriage in November.
In 1978, two years before his death in Spanish exile, he gave a spur to Holocaust deniers in France when he told L'Express that in Auschwitz, Jews were not gassed.
Unimpressed with Sheila's sister, who he felt had too much attitude, he gave a spur-of-the-moment false name; and rather than lose face when Sheila told him he'd got the job, he had to quickly learn to answer to the name Raphael.
Making the brave assumption that opening up an economy to e-commerce will give a similar spur to productivity, and adding in the direct cost savings from procurement, the bank estimates that over time the Internet will boost the level of GDP by amounts ranging from 5% in Indonesia to an impressive 12% in Singapore.
"It will give a big spur to accelerator-based work on Earth," says Arthur Poskanzer, a nuclear physicist at LBNL, who searches for quark matter at CERN.
I said whoever got a novel published first would have to dedicate it to the other one to give them a spur on.
Obviously, a fortnight is no time to make any great difference, but it did at least give me a spur and, just as importantly, a foil for any observations about the gap between past and present me.
The concerts' organizers, Live Nation, had announced the cancellation on Saturday without giving a reason, spurring rumors that the singer, 87, was ailing.
