Word: booster
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From the very start, the mission seemed to have been somewhat jinxed. The launch, postponed and rescheduled five times, was even delayed during the final countdown when a cargo ship steamed into the area of the Atlantic Ocean where the booster rocket was expected to fall. The mission's thorniest problems, however, began the day following takeoff, 15 hours after the successful launch of a Canadian-owned communications satellite. The difficulty arose when the crew deployed a second satellite, a LEASAT communications instrument under lease to the Navy and insured for $85 million. The 20-ft.-long, 7˝-ton cylinder...
...down to read Taking Heat, Fleischer's memoir of his White House years, I should have brought a cold compress. Fleischer spends much of the book knocking the press, as you might expect. Such criticism isn't the problem; he makes some good points and as a partisan booster of the President he is entitled, like all before him, to swing back at the press corps...
...just was feeling it in the first half,” sophomore guard Jim Goffredo said. “I made my first couple, and that’s a big confidence booster...my shot was feeling good tonight...
...haven’t been playing well since I’ve been injured,” Wang said. “For me personally having a win under my belt and playing as well as I did…it’s just a huge confidence booster personally...
Another happiness booster, say positive psychologists, is performing acts of altruism or kindness--visiting a nursing home, helping a friend's child with homework, mowing a neighbor's lawn, writing a letter to a grandparent. Doing five kind acts a week, especially all in a single day, gave a measurable boost to Lyubomirsky's subjects...