In a world where Tim Duncan no longer commands complete defensive attention, Parker's dribble penetration is the most direct means for the Spurs to create open shots.
But, once you find your way in, you realize that the architect, Massimiliano Fuksas, has taken the blandness of convention centers as a challenge, a spur to create the kind of architectural flourish that dispels all thoughts of dull functionality.
It was the 250th Anniversary Fund that spurred Poor to create the course, he said, referring to an initiative that provided funding for classes like his.
This revelation — in addition to the frequent requests from his youngest daughter, Kate — spurred Ellison to create a follow-up textbook designed for an even younger audience.
Revisionist satire spurred Alice Randall to create The Wind Done Gone (2001), a parody of the 20th century's most extensively read historical novel, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936).
The advance of hydroponic growing techniques and innovative, cost-effective greenhouse systems, together with increasing consumer desire for organic produce, has redefined the term locally grown and spurred entrepreneurs to create a variety of greenhouse technologies and business models.
For Lexus, whose legendary customer service was a factor in its 11-year streak as America's best-selling luxury auto brand (a run that BMW ended in 2011), the complexity of modern cars has spurred it to create Apple-style training at its 232 dealerships.
Evidently, the wealth of new scholarship spurred him to create a novel, so as to make the suffering of the gulag come alive in a more manageable size than Solzhenitsyn's doorstop, and with the immediacy and vividness that fiction can supply.
