"We talked every day by phone, but I soon learned that a faxed agenda was more effective" than spur-of-the-moment contacts.
The policy probably was more effective in spurring capital-intensive manufacturing and the employment of poorly paid Afrikaner women than in eliminating white poverty: by 1930 one in five Afrikaners was classified as "poor white".
It is mainly a symptom of desperation and reflects the dysfunction in Congress and the White House that has stopped us from using much more effective tools to spur the economy forward.
More generally, they argue that extending the tax cuts for the rich would add to the nation's dangerously rising debt; so do the tax cuts for everyone else, but Democrats point to nonpartisan studies showing that tax cuts for lower-income households are a far more effective way of spurring the economy because they spend the extra money while most wealthy taxpayers generally save it.
In an effort to assess more effective approaches to spurring use of Shared Decision Making, we decided to test a natural voice interactive voice recognition (IVR) application with the capability to transfer participants from the application to a health coach (known as AutoDialog®).
Schleicher is quoted as saying, "the findings of the report should not be used as an excuse not to use technology, but as a spur to finding a more effective approach".
There is a sense here among investors that Microsoft, as a more effective counterweight to Google, might actually serve to spur innovation in the Valley.
At the very least it will spur other donors to seek more effective methods.For all the hue and cry, China is still just one of many countries looking for raw materials around the world.
The lack of a highly effective and safe treatment option for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) has spurred aggressive efforts to identify new, more effective therapies.
Raising the minimum wage, lowering the lowest marginal tax rate, reducing prescription drug costs, spurring job creation all are almost certainly more effective ways to fight poverty and lift the lower and lower-middle income brackets.
