Word: boosting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...childish buffoonery. His emperor is conflicted and multifaceted, for sure --but lacking the visible development from ambitious commoner to dangerously monomaniacal ruler, he also lacks the necessary pathos to be anything more than a caricature. Zhang Fengyi fares better as the sympathetic Jing Ke, giving a much-needed boost of feeling to the last third of this more than two and a half hour saga. Indeed, as a seasoned killer who makes the conscious decision to renounce his murderous past, he shows what Ying Zheng has the potential to become: strong-willed yet benevolent, not guiltless yet not amoral...
...think our team was a little down in the dumps and tired coming off of Christmas training and this past week. Competing against Navy helped to focus us," said sophomore Justin Nyweide. "Overall it was a boost towards our goals for the end of the season. Now our morale is higher and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel as we look toward HYP in four weeks and Ivies in eight...
...switch to satellite service. Cable's defenders argue that once cable companies package telephone and Internet services, which is already beginning to happen, these tactics will be less effective, since consumers will be less inclined to give up one-stop telecommunications shopping. The cable companies also got a boost when a federal judge threw out Giuliani's suit. Funny, David Sarnoff never seemed to have these problems...
...officials thumbnail him as a "smooth cop"--a man tough enough to clean up Russia but charming enough to keep ties to the West. Other analysts, however, particularly at the Pentagon, are worried about Putin's disregard for democratic practices and his reliance on a war in Chechnya to boost his popularity ratings. "All we know is that he rode to power on the back of brutalizing Chechnya again," an Army colonel said. "I don't know if that's the kind of guy we want to get too close...