Word: boosting
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...Both schools fight for that undecided elite student who may succeed in politics or medicine or business or culture and eventually boost the endowment with a generous gift that would otherwise go towards a soup kitchen or cancer cure...
However, it is the defense that will provide the boost for the Big Red. Captains Danny Powell and Larry Pierce will anchor the blueline with Mark McRae and Doug Murray. A combination of size and physical play will pose the most problems to an offensively-minded Crimson squad...
...pair of wins up north would not only improve Harvard's record, but would give this young team a big boost early in the season. With the worst trip to North Country to face St. Lawrence and Clarkson soon to come, the Crimson will need all the help...
Europe's dream of promoting the euro as a competitor to the U.S. dollar may get a boost from SADDAM HUSSEIN. Iraq says that from now on, it wants payments for its oil in euros, despite the fact that the battered European currency unit, which used to be worth quite a bit more than $1, has dropped to about 82[cents]. Iraq says it will no longer accept dollars for oil because it does not want to deal "in the currency of the enemy...
...move hurts Iraq, the U.N. and the countries receiving reparations. So why is Saddam doing it? Diplomatic sources say switching to the euro will favor European suppliers over U.S. ones in competing for Iraqi contracts, and the p.r. boost that Baghdad would probably get in Europe would be another plus...