Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitors. But the minimum wage may be moving up. Congress is debating a bill that would increase the minimum 30 cents to 40 cents an hour each year for the next three years, bringing the rate to $4.55 by 1991. Supporters of the legislation contend that workers need the boost to keep up with rising prices, since the minimum wage has lost 22% of its purchasing power since the last increase in 1981. Opponents, including business lobbyists, believe the hike will hurt labor-intensive enterprises and set off an inflationary spiral...
...finished. Asseline and his co-pilot reportedly told investigators that the airplane's instruments showed that the plane was at 100 ft. just before it went over the runway. According to a rescue worker, moments after Asseline emerged from the wreckage, dazed but unharmed, he said, "I wanted to boost the power, but the aircraft did not respond...
Some monetary experts, however, think the dollar's boost is merely a smart psychological ploy by the G-7 to put a solid floor under the U.S. currency rather than drive it upward. Said a Senate staff member: "The central banks are tired of having to intervene all the time to keep the dollar from dropping...
...concentrate all over the place,"Fitzsimmons said. "But we have tried to boost thenumber of students from the West. Ten or 15 yearsago we only had 600 or 700 applicants fromCalifornia, but now we have 2000. That's due todemographic shifts, but it's also due torecruiting...
...answer: some towns might tap the West's outdoor recreation industry, which is worth $40 billion and booming, not least among foreign visitors. Western recreation should get a fresh boost from water marketing. Many environmentalists support the concept, especially as it recognizes the "in- stream values" of water: for trout fishing, white-water rafting and habitat for game birds and animals. Says Babbitt: "In many parts of the West, a cow has a lot less economic value than an elk." It is time for water laws and practices to recognize that new equation...