Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are close links between ABC and Spelling-Goldberg, which produces shows only for that network and created several of the successes (such as Fantasy Island and Hart to Hart) that helped boost ABC out of the basement in the ratings race. Sunderland, for example, once worked with J. William Hayes, Spelling-Goldberg's lawyer and business adviser, who, according to the Times, wrote the letter about exclusivity fees that caught Martin's attention. When the network conducted its inquiry, the Times added, Hayes was asked simply to submit a letter indicating that there was no truth...
...there is another line of resistance, though. "What we're doing is buying time to get our act together." Vickery explains. "right now, our efforts are fragmented." If the city's housing authority, redevelopment office and city planners work together, Vickery says, federal money could provide enough of a boost to keep a diverse population in the city. "We have to start using more subsidies, we have to start financing housing, using whatever leverage we can get," he contends. Federal loans come at prices as low as 3 per cent for those below the poverty line...
...crisis in Iran demanded his full attention. He refused to go out on the campaign trail, to meet the criticism of his challengers; instead, he discreetly campaigned from the White House, using the telephone before the Iowa caucuses and carefully orchestrated diplomatic initiatives before at least three primaries to boost his support among an electorate hungry for the hostages' return...
...eventually the media will catch on to what Harvard students know only too painfully already: that the Core is a superficial attempt to boost the Harvard ego and not the harbinger of a sincere commitment to undergraduate education. The Core's novelty will soon wear thin because it possesses the same defects as the General Education program it was designed to replace. In fact, in the five-year span from conception to birth, the Core has already managed to pass through stages startlingly reminiscent of Gen Ed's deterioration--a sort of ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny...
Workers and bosses cooperate to boost productivity