Word: boost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personable Boskin was one of the main architects of Bush's flexible- freeze plan for cutting the budget deficit without raising taxes. To make ^ the freeze work, the Bush team would have to limit increases on most domestic spending to the inflation rate and at the same time boost economic growth and reduce interest rates. Many economists think that combination would be quite tricky to arrange. Says Lawrence Summers, a Harvard professor and former adviser to Michael Dukakis: "I would not want to skate on a flexibly frozen lake...
Some economists point out that costlier fuel would slow down the economy and boost inflation somewhat. According to a study by the WEFA Group, a Pennsylvania-based forecasting firm, a 10 cents-per-gal. increase would accelerate inflation by about one-third of 1% and cut GNP by $10 billion, or one-fifth of 1%. The firm estimated that the slowdown in growth would lead to 80,000 layoffs in the first year of the tax increase...
...file a brief on the medical advantages of legal abortions. Advocates of such operations see them as the only safe alternative to often fatal clandestine methods, symbolized by the coat-hanger emblems on many pro-choice posters. The view that abortion at least does not harm women got a boost last week from a surprising source: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who, after a year of study, found no proof that women obtaining legal abortions suffered a greater incidence of physical or psychological harm than women who brought their pregnancies to term...
...salary boost may attract more talent to Washington, but it will distance lawmakers even more from life beyond the Beltway. -- A retrospective view of Ronald Reagan as he heads off into the sunset. -- A new survey finds that Americans are looking forward to Bush with something less than longing. -- Hugh Sidey on the new drug czar, "Big Bill" Bennett...
Many politicians and economists want to boost the levy to cut the budget deficit, but powerful opponents would rather fight than pay. -- Barred from using polygraphs, employers seek an integrity test...