Word: boost
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...devastating report from the Tower commission depicting an inattentive President surrounded by reckless advisers. The President's response to the report, and his widely applauded appointments of a new White House chief of staff and CIA director to go along with his new National Security Adviser, gave a boost to an Administration that had been foundering. Though it failed to address several of the more troubling aspects of Iranscam, the meticulously crafted twelve-minute speech showed that Reagan recognized the severity of the crisis and had determined to take steps to remedy the situation...
...especially at the moment of transition to the nuclear stage, through the use of antisatellite weapons, space mines or other means. Many key land-based ABM installations will also be destroyed. The use of ballistic missiles with lighter warheads and solid-fuel missiles with decreased boost-phase time will require an excessive increase in the number of SDI space stations...
...Caspar Weinberger, for example ((Weinberger eight weeks ago called for early deployment of a preliminary SDI, including some space-based components)). Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations over several years, each armed with several dozen antimissile missiles to destroy Soviet ICBMs in the boost phase of their trajectory. In addition, a network of sensors, reconnaissance and battle-management stations would be created. The purported danger of this system is that it would not be effective against the currently existing number of Soviet missiles, but would be sufficient, after that number is cut, to render...
...automakers have been aided by six years of quotas on imported Japanese cars, guess who else has benefited handsomely? Answer: the very rivals that the quotas sought to curb. The trade limits created a shortage of Japanese autos in U.S. showrooms, thus enabling their makers to raise prices and boost their revenues by as much as $2 billion a year. That extra profit, which came out of the pockets of U.S. consumers, gave the Japanese automakers even more money for research to improve their competitive position against Detroit...
...more than 3000 Harvard undergraduateswho will receive some form of student aid fromWashington this year, the Senate bill couldprovide a significant financial boost. Accordingto Associate Director for Financial Aid Janet L.Irons, the federal government will send about $2.1million in loans, $5.4 million in grants, and $1.3million in work-study to Harvard students thisyear...