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A calculated civic boosterism (so exuberant that the city's chamber of commerce slogan was once "Charlotte--A Good Place to Make Money") has spurred the city's desire to appear enlightened.
This tragedy spurred him in his hazardous ricocheting between Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo and helped bring about better-late-than-never NATO airstrikes in 1995.
Spurred, oddly enough, by a Fed rate hike--it used to be programmatic that stock prices fell when the Fed raised rates--the Dow reached 11,000 for the first time in months and the Nasdaq set new record after new record.
The firm's decision to go public was driven by unbridled individual greed and represents the demise of the long-term, group-oriented thinking that spurred the firm's original success.
The influx was spurred by gambling, airport and harbor improvement on the major islands, and the creation of the modern city of Freeport (which had been set in motion by the so-called Hawksbill Creek Agreement of 1955).