The governor of the Bank of Japan, Toshihiko Fukui, above, said last week that consumer spending and inflation had been "somewhat weak," spurring speculation the bank would delay raising the lowest interest rates among major economies.
Though the rain may have reduced the fire risk somewhat, it also spurred greater growth of grasses, which serve as fuel for a fire once it starts advancing.
Daniel Levy, the Tottenham chairman, seemed to milk as much value out of Bale as he could, and somewhat transparently, Spurs appeared to begin spending its infusion of funds before the cash had changed hands.
Maybe I was somewhat responsible for one of the fires that spurred the recall…oh no….
It began when the author of one book, rights to which had been sold to Universal Pictures and the filmmaker Gary Ross, discovered that Mr. Ross had spurred the publication of a new and somewhat sexier work on the same subject.
As much as I enjoyed seeing creative displays of checkout-free and robotics technology spurred on by the frenzy Amazon Go has created, the industry does need to slow its roll somewhat.
That assault spurred vigilance.
The news Tuesday spurred a 4percentt decline, to $6.52, in the stock price of Human Genome Sciences, which is in late-stage trials of a lupus drug that works somewhat like Rituxan.
Likely spurred by the improvements in pricing and liquidity, issuance of investment-grade corporate bonds has been strong, and speculative-grade issuance, which was near zero in the fourth quarter, has picked up somewhat.
Specialisation spurred increase in productivity.
