Word: boosts
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Caspar Weinberger, the prospective Secretary of Defense, contended before the Senate Armed Services Committee that a "gap" existed in the U.S.-Soviet balance of nuclear weapons. He endorsed Reagan's plans to boost defense spending, but rejected proposals to hike the budget by a fixed percentage each year, as some conservative Senators have suggested...
Along with personnel and equipment, the CIA needs a boost in morale. In an agency of special sensitivity, Turner treated CIA officials much like swabbies on a deck detail. He eliminated 820 posts in the Directorate of Operations, dismissing veteran officers with curt notes. CIA subordinates reacted by circulating Gilbert and Sullivan parodies of their spit-and-polish director...
...magically, comes this stark quartet of domes and turrets rising like a restored castle out of the Florida flats. The timing is impeccable. As the Reagan Administration lumbers into place, so too this other new machine-huge, untried, ambitious (albeit with limited maneuverability); designed to aid national defense, to boost Big Business, to restore U.S. eminence in a domain once its own; a reviver of old dreams; a boon to upward mobility. The same question applies to both vehicles: Will they...
Despite the difficulties, there was still time last week to imagine the lift-off that would for the first time use solid rockets to boost men into space. Said NASA Official James Kukowski: "It's going to be a visual spectacular, more spectacular than usual. When Columbia goes up, it won't be just flames and steam as it is for the Saturn stuff. There will be huge streamers of fire and dark, billowing clouds of smoke." And, quite likely, a good deal of hoping and praying. And not a little of that anticipatory mood that was expressed last week...
...summer, however, the farmers' plight had vastly improved. The drought in the U.S., plus bad harvests in Argentina and Australia, gave farm prices a big boost. The cost of grain suddenly shot up by as much as 50%; at that point, buyers snapped up all of the grain in sight and the result was a bonanza for farmers who had been able to ride out the early months of the embargo. "For the first time in 35 years, I'm out of debt," said Clarence Adams of McHenry, Ill. He had sold 30,000 bu. of corn...