Word: boost
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...this public and private activity was beginning to surface long before the Son Tay raid, but Son Tay brought the whole effort into the open. "After this, I believe that nothing is impossible," says Mrs. Kevin McManus, secretary-treasurer of the National League. "It's a tremendous boost. People do care now." Many wives take the Son Tay raid as an overdue sign of concern on the part of the U.S. Government; they also feel that it will buoy the morale of their imprisoned husbands. No one, however, is quite sure just how the prisoners will find out about...
...Harvard players were more eager to boost their individual statistics than lose their teeth however, and while the Huskies were skating back and forth from the penalty box, the Crimson added three more goals...
...industry is often painted as the chief villain by conservationists, but pollution is hardly unique to capitalist nations. It is often worse in Communist countries, where technocrats toil to boost industrial production with little thought to environmental consequences...
...controversial tests, the latter apparently cannibalized the former's acquired knowledge, which is believed to have been contained in RNA molecules that were coded during training. As late as the mid-'60s, chemicals such as glutamic acid were thought to increase alertness in humans and even to boost IQ scores. Alas, the latest word from the lab seems to be that an intelligence pill is not around the corner...
Nixon thus will be sorely tempted to shift policy and give an extra boost to production, profits and jobs by allowing Government spending to rise still higher. Some Administration officials think that such a course would risk starting again the price spiral that the U.S. has only begun to curb, but they are frankly afraid that the boss will do it. Nixon and his advisers, says one Administration economist, "discovered that inflation started slowing down after the economy slowed down. Now they may do the reverse: speed up the economy and let the inflation come afterward-after the 1972 elections...