Word: booster
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Closer to home, Harvard coaches and athletes too often view the student press as a potential booster club and not as reporters trying to be objective. There is some bad, cheerleading reporting on campus, but there can also be some excellent, unbiased writing. Athletes and coaches should realize that the latter is the model student journalists correctly aspire to, and respect that...
...were fortunate to be in the game after that first period," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "We sat around and watched them skate. We're pleased to come out 6-5. It's a real morale booster...
...Action Comics next month. The Smithsonian's exhibition of Supermanobilia will run until June in Washington. In Metropolis, Ill., they are refurbishing for summer visitors the large statue that proclaims the dubious proposition that this is "Superman's hometown." And in Cleveland, which really is Superman's hometown, a booster club that calls itself the Neverending Battle is planning an international Superman exhibition and a ticker-tape parade down Euclid Avenue in June...
...tried to specify what went wrong. After all, it was only a year and a half ago that Congress approved $100 million in aid to the rebels. Some cited the Iran-contra affair. Others said political expediency had come into play. "This is an election year," said one contra booster, "and the plain fact is that there is not resounding ((public)) support...
...liberation of its divisions could be a morale booster for the company, especially since the move comes after a streamlining process in which the company reduced its work force by 16,000 jobs, to about 400,000 total. At the same time, some 20,000 workers were transferred, often from cushy staff jobs to more grinding assignments in sales and service. Akers is thus trying to give the company a peppier, more entrepreneurial feeling, even renaming the product groups to give them pizazz not normally seen at IBM. Example: the Information Systems & Storage Group will be rechristened IBM Enterprise Systems...