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The company said its “new business model” agreements, which offer improved visibility into customer demand, are spurring confidence in these targets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
And European authorities are spurring firms to do better.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The outages as well as regular shortages of food, medicine and other basics are spurring frustrations, with demonstrators vandalizing a provincial office of the Cuban Communist Party last weekend.
From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026
This time, consumers are spurring along food companies through mobile apps such as Yuka, which allow shoppers to scrutinize a product’s ingredients as they decide what to buy and eat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
For, as wakening drums, Your voice shall set his blood stirring; His heart shall grow strong like the main When the rowelled winds are spurring, And the broad tides landward strain.
From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
