Word: boost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasing numbers of teenagers are turning to private SAT cram courses that can cost as much as $800 and claim to boost scores 100 points or more. "Over the past five years, our revenues have doubled," boasts Stanley H. Kaplan, chairman of a nationwide test-coaching chain that bears his name. Summer courses at Ivy League universities or prestigious academies like Phillips Exeter are also popular. These platinum-plated extras, plus fees for applications and trips to visit campuses, can add up to a staggering sum -- and all before the tuition bills start to arrive...
...with good reason. The union premised its entire organizing drive on inclusion--meeting one-on-one with workers and urging all staff to voice their concerns. Union organizers said the main goal of having a union at Harvard was not to raise worker salaries or boost worker benefits, but to give workers a powerful voice in decision-making...
Watson set a meet record with his time of 1:52.95 in the backstroke. The defending Eastern champion in the event, Watson touched one-half second ahead of the nearest Army rival to give the Crimson a much-needed emotional boost...
...models, it doesn't work in real life. Of all the increases in the minimum wage since 1938, not one has resulted in increased unemployment. Raising the minimum wage increases the purchasing power of the poorest workers, who tend to spend most of their paychecks. The resulting boost in demand keeps the economy buoyant...
...this night, however, Johnson's purpose was not just to be convivial. Declaring that he had tried everything he could during the past two years to boost RJR Nabisco's stock price, Johnson said he had found a solution: he and his fellow top managers would take complete control of the company in a leveraged buyout (LBO). Johnson would then sell off some of the company's food brands and run the remaining divisions as a private company. Surprised that a chief executive would initiate a raid on his own company, the directors nonetheless allowed him to mount what would...