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Only if it serves as a building block to a better Smiley novel in the future, one in which her brilliant lessons of disillusionment fly faster, because they're spurred on by a bigger, warmer imagination.
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.
Perhaps this is because attorneys, spurred on by campaigns such as the annual one called, "And Justice for All," have been unusually generous in recent years, donating money for this purpose.
They lowered marginal rates from ludicrously high levels to more reasonable ones, and they spurred the economic expansion of the '80s (as well as the deficits of the '80s).
As the pace of the evolution of service delivery systems and the reconfiguration of grantees accelerated following the funding cutbacks and program reforms in 1996, and spurred on by the technological revolution, the reporting of grantee activity solely on the basis of "cases" was becoming increasingly inadequate.