Word: boosted
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...resolution appeared likely, it was uncertain whether the language would be as timely or as forceful as Bush and Baker would like. Bush would go no further than to say that "there is a chance" the resolution will be adopted this week. If so, it would give a boost to his policy on the home front as well. The Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on gulf policy this week, to be followed shortly by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, next week, by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congress has been demanding a voice in any decision to fight...
...professional level, both negatively and positively, without constant reference to her gender. She got the respect of her peers in Parliament, both male and female, for the tasks that she accomplished--not as a woman, but as a leader. This is much more praiseworthy and a much bigger boost for equality than if Thatcher had been a militant feminist while in office...
...Communist witch-hunt could lead to civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
...heavy for the alliance arrayed against him. Mustering its defensive force in Saudi Arabia in August and September cost the U.S. $2.5 billion. The Pentagon's estimate for the continuing buildup to an offensive force had been $15 billion in fiscal 1991; the escalation announced last week will clearly boost that bill. If a shooting war begins, some Washington analysts speculate costs could rise to $1 billion...
Powell, the New York-born son of Jamaican immigrants, entered the Army via the ROTC program at the City College of New York. He too got a boost from the White House, where he was a fellow in 1972, working for Frank Carlucci, then deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. When Carlucci became National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, he named Powell as his deputy. Powell became Reagan's Security Adviser in 1987 when Carlucci was appointed Secretary of Defense...