Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acquirees." On the day the Travelers deal was announced--creating a giant with $42 billion in equity--vice presidents at still independent Goldman Sachs nervously fingered their E-mail with questions about when the famously private firm might seek a public offering to raise more cash in order to boost its size. Technology and deregulation have--even for a firm with profits north of $3 billion--turned the competitive heat way, way up. "In five years this firm may be run by a software guy," Goldman CEO Jon Corzine once mused to TIME. A geek at the helm of Goldman...
...McAnn-Erickson advertising. "The people in our industry who want to read it will probably all be on the comp list." Yet the sign-up rate among those who received Brill's cheeky direct-mail pitches is running close to 7%, far above expectations. That has prompted Brill to boost the projected circulation for the launch issue from 175,000 to 250,000. "Will an audience of nonmedia people be interested in this magazine?" asks Brill. "I think we've answered that question...
...Rwanda to try the more than 120,000 Hutu militants held on charges relating to the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. "The government is concentrating on the organizers of the genocide," says Mutiso. "Eventually, they'll release the bulk of prisoners who confess and repent." One factor that may boost attendance at Kigali's soccer stadium by the ghoulishly curious: The execution method hasn't been announced...
...Katherine Loker's stunning new gift gives [Widener] Library a wonderful boost," said Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles. "This takes a great stride towards funding the Widener renovation project, which has a very high priority...
...slot at any of the state's public universities, including the highly selective University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M. At many of the state's public high schools, most of the students are black or Latino, so sponsors of the plan expected the new law to boost minority enrollments to new highs. Among educators around the country who thought affirmative action might be threatened on their own campuses, the fate of the 10% Plan became a focus of considerable interest...