Word: boost
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...which has pinched the country's economic growth and pushed unemployment to 3% for the first time in decades. The new sanctions would go into effect only two weeks before a planned visit to Washington by Nakasone, who was hoping for a show of friendliness with Reagan that might boost his support at home...
...most locals welcome the invasion, which should provide a $10 million boost to the battered economy. "The students are a huge shot in the arm," says Mayor Bob Pinkerton. "We're trying to help them, not hang them." Agrees Tourist Bureau Publicist Dick Bushnell: "Maybe Lauderdale doesn't need...
...decision gives a big boost to affirmative action, even without evidence of past discrimination. -- Two Marine guards are accused of letting Soviet agents roam through the U. S. embassy in Moscow. -- Poindexter is likely to testify that he told Reagan in general terms about the contra fund diversion. -- Carmel- by- the- Sea is lean and clean under Mayor Clint Eastwood...
...momentum of technological change will get a major boost this summer when the General Services Administration receives bids from suppliers competing for the contract to provide new long-distance services to the U.S. Government over the next ten years. At a cost of $450 million for the first year, the job of linking 1.3 million telephones in 3,500 different federal offices in the U.S. and its territories will be the largest telephone project in history. Among other state-of-the-art features, the new system will provide Government workers with the capability of holding video teleconferences and sending messages...
Another idea: use sounding rockets to boost detection equipment up 100 miles, allowing a five-minute viewing window of the southern skies before falling back to earth. A third: "Everyone who has got an instrument in his closet is digging it out and petitioning NASA for support to go to Australia and fly it in a balloon," says Marvin Leventhal, a physicist with AT&T's Bell Labs. Leventhal and his collaborator Crawford MacCallum, a physicist with the Sandia Corp., already have their balloon, a plastic monster so huge (600 to 700 ft. tall) that its material could be used...