Word: boost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the City Council returns from its summer recess, the campaigns will get another boost. The Monday night gatherings bring local politicos together to warm the benches in Sullivan Chamber. Whether in or out of office, they frequently offer their opinions for the benefit of the coucilors and the new cable television cameras...
...during normal working hours, then later showed off the equipment's true capacity when the plant was deserted, the report claims. The secrecy extended even to accounting: Toshiba Machine allegedly split the proceeds from one shipment into two semiannual periods to avoid drawing attention to the company's sales boost...
When the City Council returns from its summer recess, the campaigns will get another boost. The Monday night gatherings bring local politicos together to warm the benches in Sullivan Chamber. Whether in or out of office, they frequently offer their opinions for the benefit of the coucilors and the new cable television cameras...
Chances for an arms deal get a boost from offers by the U. S. and West Germany. -- He may be worth $7 million, but g. o. p. Candidate Pierre Samuel du Pont IV says he is a self- made man. -- Three federal agencies are investigating Panamanian Despot Manuel Noriega. -- In Louisiana, an accountant is executed for a brutal murder...
...with the insurance problem, 15 states have started risk pools that provide health insurance, at rates that can run as high as four times the usual, to people who would otherwise be uninsurable. In recent years more than 20,000 applicants have joined such pools, which could get a boost from legislation pending in Congress that encourages states to create them. That measure may be helpful, but it is unlikely to ease the continuing pressure on private insurers to allocate more funds to the hapless AIDS victim...