Word: boost
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While agreeing that a better balance between consumer demand and supply in the U.S. economy is crucial, many trade experts, along with nearly all politicians, think the Government should take specific actions to reduce imports and boost exports. Clyde Prestowitz, a former trade negotiator for the Reagan Administration, suggests that the U.S. can do a better job of stimulating American sales in foreign markets. It is fine, for example, that the U.S. is now pressuring Japan to accept more beef and citrus products. But the Government could focus more attention on ensuring fair trade in high-tech industries that have...
...meeting was motivated by the long, grinding decline in oil prices that has strapped petroleum-rich countries the world over. A decade ago, when OPEC controlled the bulk of oil output, the group could boost prices at whim. But as OPEC's share of the world's oil market has dwindled, from 56% in 1973 to 33% today, so has the group's control over prices. OPEC has tried to persuade its increasingly productive rivals to limit their output, but they have nonetheless pumped freely and helped swamp the market. They hitherto saw no reason to cooperate with OPEC, since...
Sophomore hurler Mike Dorrington baffled the Lions for a complete-game win to boost his record to 4-3 on the season. Dorrington scattered just four hits and five walks to hold Columbia to just a single run. The righthander struck out five batters...
Equally remarkable is David Chandruss, 25, of Chicago, who was found to have the disease nine years ago. He has recovered from pneumonia without the aid of medication five times. After a bout last year with two serious infections, he was put on interferon, which is supposed to boost the immune system but may cause pain. Now he is on AZT. "You have to have a cause to live for," declares Chandruss, who devotes much of his time to caring for other AIDS sufferers. He lives at a novitiate of the Alexian Brothers, a Roman Catholic order that runs...
Other Israelis found no room for doubt. "Anyone directing terrorism is a proper target for elimination," said Major General Amnon Shahak, the I.D.F.'s head of intelligence. Some Israelis predicted that the attack would boost morale throughout the country, and especially within an army frustrated by its inability to put down the uprising and polish Israel's international image as a formidable foe. They suggested that by robbing the P.L.O. of the man responsible for military operations against Israel, the operation had delivered the Palestinians a crippling blow that would demoralize their spirits and deflate the uprising...