"That is politically an extremely powerful development," Mr. Peters said, arguing that it could spur policy changes by both nations.
And celebrity victims have been instrumental in spurring policy change, as when the 1989 stalking and murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer helped inspire anti-stalking laws in California that have since spread across the US.
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that the encouraging report on jobs shows that "we're pointed in the right direction" and that the beginning of the end of the recession should spur policies to avoid a similar calamity for the nation.
A morally demanding duty-based foundation would normally be expected to spur policies and strategies which demonstrate greater social investment which will in turn engender a greater community development.
Social and political recognition of the scale of the problem, and of its strong links to health inequalities, spurred policy-makers to allocate significant government funding to a nationally coordinated Hepatitis C Action Plan [ 2], with an evidence-gathering and consultation phase followed by a planning and action phase.
They chose to act with an investment in BountyQuest because they agreed with the company's founders that something could be done to resolve questions about business-method patents before the controversy spurs a policy review at the federal Patent and Trademark Office or reaches Congress or the courts.
Overly rigid rules may spur tighter policy in a slump, but allowing for the cycle can leave too much wriggle room, as Britain's fiscal mess shows.
Barring some breakthroughs — in biofuels, zero-carbon electricity, etc. — that fortuitously arrive (spurred by policy, perhaps or just manna from heaven), my money is with California abandoning the 80% target.
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 that won't happen if the government proposals are uninformed efforts to spur industrial policy.
