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The calamity spurred the government to launch an emergency program of public-housing construction; spartan new blocks of apartments put cheap and fireproof roofs over hundreds of thousands of heads.
But somehow, more federal activism has only spurred the litigious exuberance of the 50 AGs.
Recently, the head of the California Bar Association delivered an address at the annual meeting decrying jokes about lawyers, suggesting that a man who had raided a law office and killed some people in it had been inspired or spurred on by the derisive attitude toward lawyers that “lawyer jokes” fostered.
Slave redeemers provide a strong financial incentive for the continuation of the slave business, which would otherwise be unprofitable, and have spurred an increase in the number of Sudanese being enslaved.
But it's also worth mentioning that Harvey Weinstein's interest in funding Good Will Hunting was not spurred by his own finely tuned aesthetic sensibilities but rather by Kevin Smith, a golden boy after the profitable release of Chasing Amy , who delivered the script for Good Will Hunting to Weinstein in person and insisted that it be made.