The mandate of the 80-hour work-week, the introduction of integrated residency programs, increased global awareness about patient safety along with financial constraints have spurred changes in graduate educational practices.
Deregulation has spurred dramatic changes in America's electric utility industry, and energy companies are redesigning their corporate strategies to address these changes.
What has spurred the changes?
Indeed, the growing population has spurred many changes that have led to cleaner air, they say, including new state emission standards for vehicles, limits on wood-burning fireplaces and car pool lanes.
A warming world has spurred these changes, researchers conclude, because the total number of flowers has declined in this region and the shorter tongue enables the bees to suck nectar from more kinds of flowers.
What has spurred this change?
"A is for ash – the volcanic variety, which has spurred a sea change in our attitude to terrestrial transport.
The Obama administration's main school improvement initiative has spurred education policy changes in states across the nation, but it is meeting with some last-minute resistance as the first deadline for applications arrives Tuesday.
But the widespread disappointment among investors in hundreds of sagging growth funds has spurred far less change than fund analysts had anticipated.
As recently as 1991, around a quarter of British bathing waters were too dirty to swim in but the threat of EU infringement cases and beach closures, has spurred a dramatic change since then.
