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Word: bolsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...means - to do the job." Until the new project starts paying off, India remains perilously vulnerable to the threat of famine if a single crop season goes bad; last week Minister of Food and Agriculture S. K. Patil was in Washington negotiating a $1.5 billion surplus-food purchase to bolster his stockpiles in the event of just such an emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Challenging Malthus | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...economy. It is a darned good sign." So this week a top Government economist welcomed the news that personal income in March rose by $500 million, despite bad weather, to a record high of $393.5 billion. There were signs that the consumer is using his record income to bolster the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Solid Underpinning | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development corporation ("little RFC") and a $2,000,000 industrial-loan authority to bolster the state's sagging coal-mining and agricultural economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: New Track | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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