Word: booster
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...behind and trying to catch up,” said Du, who had three assists on the night. Rather than playing with “the mindset that you have when you’re behind,” he added, Harvard had a nice “confidence booster.” The Crimson scored twice more in the third before the Engineers ruined Richter’s shutout with under five minutes remaining to play. The netminder ended the game with 16 saves, seven of which came on the power play. “Kyle had a great...
...shallow-minded alumni booster organizations that donate their own, tax-deductible millions - making sure the jocks sleep in five-star hotels on the road while engineering majors back on campus scrape by to pay skyrocketing tuitions - only affirm that warped culture. The booster clubs and athletic departments counter that university classrooms and non-major sports benefit from the football and basketball riches...
...Democracy promotion" has been a focus of both Democratic and Republican administrations, but the Bush White House has been a particular booster since 9/11. Iran contra figure Elliott Abrams was put in charge of the effort at the National Security Council. Until recently, Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of the Vice President, oversaw such work at the State Department. In the past, the U.S. has used support for "democracy building" to topple unfriendly dictators, including Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Ukraine's Vladimir Kuchma...
...took that lesson to heart. Even while her singing career flourished, she maintained a steady presence in Detroit, making her home in a downtown high-rise apartment with her son Eric, attending the True Rock Baptist Church every Sunday she was in the city and becoming a visible town booster who frequently popped up at school career days...
...Irving Berlin’s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare reduction, somehow managed to use “This Land” during his presidential campaigns...