Word: booster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weren't panicking. We knew we were playing well after RPI," junior center Steve Moore said. "The Union win was a real confidence booster for the team...
...Berliner, herbal supplements have become part of her daily routine for "physical and mental health reasons." And she said she wouldn't hesitate to recommend the supplements to a friend who might be in need of an energy booster...
...tireless booster of whatever happened to be going on at that exact moment--group therapy, meditation, laundry. This enthusiasm was both his greatest strength and perhaps his fatal flaw. If on the job he channeled that eagerness into getting a client interested in a new script or a studio in a project, in treatment he pumped his fist about how great it felt to be drug free. He was always, consummately, in the moment. And for him, there had been some pretty hairy moments. He had begun doing cocaine about six months before, and in a pattern familiar to most...
...pierce or tattoo that very skin. Yet increasingly they do. Tattooing and piercing, once the preference of biker chicks and sailors on shore leave, are attracting ever younger recruits. Chances are that someday soon your 12-year-old--the same kid who cried real tears over getting a booster shot at her last annual checkup--will be bugging you for a naval piercing or a tattoo of James Van Der Beek's face on her midriff...
...Robinson, who as CEO of American Express in the 1980s tried to marry banking, credit cards and other products with brokerage services in a financial supermarket. His plan dissolved amid corporate infighting and data-sharing nightmares that are now easily remedied with more powerful computers and better software. Another booster is Congressman Jim Leach, chairman of the House Banking Committee. He predicts that the bill will save consumers $15 billion a year in lower rates and fees...