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Spurred by the recent governors' conference held in Washington, D.C., the pundits confer Issue 3 status on the state budgets.
He carefully explains how Clinton spurred witness Monica Lewinsky to lie, coached potential witness Betty Currie to lie, found Lewinsky a job in exchange for a false affidavit, got Currie and Lewinsky to conceal gifts, and deceived Sidney Blumenthal and John Podesta so that they would lie to the grand jury.
The family admits now that this was a diversion which, says the paper, has in turn spurred some talk that perhaps her death was an assisted suicide.
The Serb crackdown spurred the first organized Albanian opposition.
Ironically, the British occupation gave Guadeloupe’s economy a big boost: between 20,000 and 30,000 more slaves were transported in and new cane-grinding windmills built, all of which spurred the sugar trade to unprecedented prosperity.