Word: boosted
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Several council members said that the council should pass the laws without dissent in order to boost the strength of its message...
...Harvard embarks on a planned $2 billion fundraising campaign, some parts of the University are anticipating a generous financial boost...
...national sales tax, or something or other, but never income taxes. Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu, speaking as "a senior White House official" -- a transparent disguise -- then gave a novel definition of what "no preconditions" meant. The Democrats, he said, were free to propose a tax boost, but "it's our prerogative to say no. And I emphasize...
...earthquake that rattled the San Francisco Bay Area last fall caused $7 million worth of damage at Mills College, a 138-year-old women's school in Oakland. But the tremors set off by the college's decision to boost revenue by accepting men have shaken Mills' foundations more severely than any natural disaster...
Indirectly, of course, Tehran gets a boost. Settlements of this sort will help President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ease his country back into the trade and economic relationships it so badly needs with the rest of the world. And if he cares to regard it as evidence that a conciliatory approach to the U.S. pays off, all the better...