Faced with an international economic downturn the government announced a $ 4 billion economic stimulus plan to spur employment and growth, and despite the global financial crisis, aimed for an expansion of between 2 percent and 3 percent of GDP for 2009.

Due to the short distance between the lever arm link boss and the pivot pin and the difference between the effective radius of the sector gear and that of the spur gear, any motion of the Bourdon tube is greatly amplified.

The town centre itself is sited on a low-lying spur between the floodplains of the Wye and Monnow, and has frequently suffered from severe flooding.

In summer 1961, Silver City agreed with rival French air ferry operator Compagnie Air Transport ( CAT ) for the latter to finance the construction of a two-mile rail spur into Le Touquet Airport from the nearby main line to reduce the travelling time between the airport and Paris by cutting out the coach / rail change at Étaples.

Carn Dûm, where the Witch-king of Angmar resided for several centuries in the Third Age, lay between a western spur of the northern extreme of the mountains, known as the Mountains of Angmar.

According to the twelfth century chronicler William of Malmesbury, the abbey was built on a gravel spur " between the rivers Kennet and Thames, on a spot calculated for the reception of almost all who might have occasion to travel to the more populous cities of England ".

His death led to a weakening of French royal authority that helped spur decades of religious violence between Protestants and Catholics.

Although passenger services via this spur ceased in 1941, it was retained to transfer empty trains between the East London line and the rest of the sub-surface network

** Spurious-free dynamic range ( SFDR ) indicates in dB the ratio between the powers of the converted main signal and the greatest undesired spur.

Patriot Rail operates state-owned trackage between Gastonia and Mount Holly with a spur extending to Belmont.

Three men who helped to perpetrate this swindle, including the county attorney and a judge of the county court, were shot and killed on April 24, 1872 while on board a Katy railroad spur between Bryson, Missouri and Paola, Kansas ( in or near what is now known as Gunn City ).

This route replaced pre-1927 Route 14 between Cape May and Seaville, what was planned as pre-1927 Route 19 between Seaville and Absecon, pre-1927 Route 4 between Absecon and Lakewood and South Amboy and Rahway, and a spur of pre-1927 Route 7 between Lakewood and Freehold, with the rest of the route to be built on a new alignment.

The route replaced portions of the alignments of several pre-1927 state highways including pre-1927 Route 14 between Cape May and Seaville, pre-1927 Route 19 between Seaville and Absecon, pre-1927 Route 4 between Absecon and Lakewood and between South Amboy and Rahway, a spur of pre-1927 Route 7 between Lakewood and Freehold.

The portion of current Route 50 between Seaville and Petersburg received funding in 1910 to become a spur of the Ocean Highway.

The portion of current Route 50 between Seaville and Petersburg received funding to become a spur of the Ocean Highway in 1910.

Originally seen as a spur route, to be designated Interstate 297, it was planned to be built along the Maryland Route 3 corridor, but the proposed route was canceled because of local opposition.

To the south, the same C / D roads become Maryland Route 665 as a direct freeway spur into Annapolis.

Interstate 97 ends outside of Baltimore at an interchange with the Baltimore Beltway, one of a series of interconnected interchanges which includes Maryland Route 2 and a spur of Interstate 895.

By 1872, the line was completed, together with a " spur " to Washington DC and the entire line through Southern Maryland was completed in 1873.

* Interstate 270 ( Maryland ), a spur to the Washington, DC area

Interstate 370 ( abbreviated I-370 ) is a Interstate Highway spur route off I-270 in Gaithersburg, Maryland to the western end of toll road MD 200 ( Intercounty Connector ) at an interchange that provides access to the park and ride lot at the Shady Grove station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro.

* Interstate 595 ( Maryland ), an unsigned spur to Annapolis, Maryland

* Interstate 170 ( Maryland ), a partially built spur in Baltimore, Maryland, formerly designated as Interstate 595

* Interstate 395 ( Maryland ), a spur in Baltimore, Maryland

* Interstate 195 ( Maryland ), a spur to BWI Airport

The Cabin John Parkway, a short connector between I-495 and the Clara Barton Parkway near the Potomac River along the Maryland – Virginia border, is considered an Interstate spur ( I-495X ) by the Maryland State Highway Administration.

* Interstate 795 ( Maryland ), a spur to Reisterstown

The second was built as a short spur between the newly constructed Interstate 95 and US 1 in Elkridge, Maryland.

From its northern terminus in Maryland headed south, the range is composed mainly of a single north-south running ridge with periodic low-lying gaps, though it does contain several spur ridges, most notably near its intersection with South Mountain at its northern terminus.

The alignment of Route 18 through Middlesex County from Middlesex to Highland Park was first designated in the 1926 designing of a new highway system as State Highway Route S-29, a prefixed spur of New Jersey Route 29 ( U. S. Route 22 ) through Middlesex County, following Washington Avenue in Middlesex and the River Road in Piscataway until terminating at State Highway Route 27 near the Albany Street Bridge in Highland Park.

The E Street Expressway is a spur from Interstate 66 into the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

The proposed route ran through Lake Waramaug's eastern watershed, across the Shepaug River, and through the Steep Rock Reservation, with a secondary spur running through Washington Green and Nettleton Hollow.

Interstate 705 ( abbreviated I-705, also known as the Tacoma Spur ) is a short Interstate Highway spur route of Interstate 5 located entirely within Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.

Stubblefield's inventions did not lead directly to radio as the technology works today, but the public demonstrations in 1902 and the press coverage in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Scientific American, and elsewhere helped to spur public interest in the possibilities of wireless transmission of voice and music.

However, at least one study by a professor of urban and regional planning at George Washington University found that the historic district designation had done little to spur economic growth in the neighborhood.

* Interstate 395 ( District of Columbia – Virginia ), a spur from I-95 to Washington, D. C.

State Route 900 is a state highway in the state of Washington, USA, getting its number as the westernmost spur of Interstate 90.

Interstate 395 ( I-395 ) in Washington, D. C., and Virginia is a spur route that begins at a junction with I-95 in Springfield and ends in northwest Washington, D. C.

The Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor ( SEHSR ) is a passenger rail transportation project in the United States to extend high speed passenger rail services from Washington, DC south through Richmond, Petersburg with a spur to Norfolk ( the Hampton Roads region ) in Virginia through Raleigh and Charlotte in North Carolina and connect with the existing high speed rail corridor from DC to Boston, Massachusetts known as the Northeast Corridor.

State Route 302 Spur is a spur route of State Route 302 in the town of Purdy, Washington.

Given a contract by the administration of President Andrew Jackson to deliver mail between Washington, D. C., and Milledgeville, Georgia ( then the state capital ), Smith extended it with numerous spur routes, all generating extra fees.

State Route 105 Spur ( more specifically referred to by the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) as " State Route 105 Spur Westport ") is a spur of State Route 105 that goes north into the town of Westport, USA.