Word: booster
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...documents - whose authenticity is not in dispute - include e-mails written by Canary, long after her recusal, offering legal advice to subordinates handling the case. At the time Canary wrote the e-mails, her husband - Alabama GOP operative William J. Canary - was a vocal booster of the state's Republican governor, Bob Riley, who had defeated Siegelman for the office and against whom Siegelman was preparing to run again. Canary also received tens of thousands of dollars in fees from other political opponents of Siegelman...
...drivers will not have to be pilots able to fly manned aircraft. "This will certainly be a cultural change," Brigadier General Lyn Sherlock, a top air warfare planner, said of the shift, which was announced during the annual convention of the Air Force Association, the service's non-profit booster group...
...best to create storms elsewhere, with a series of harshly negative and factually challenged ads, one accusing Obama of making a sexist slight, another accusing him of wanting to give sex education to kindergartners. Though the new attacks are misleading, they have allowed Palin to continue to play booster on McCain's rocket. McCain aides abandoned their plans to send her out on the trail by herself and have instead installed her as his more popular warm-up act. McCain himself certainly seems revitalized, following Palin at each stop with a fiery stump speech filled with barbs aimed at Obama...
...clearly live for the lifespan of the human organism, which is wonderful. It raises important questions for looking at other pathogens, however, and it's important to try to look at these questions for different pathogens individually. Evidence shows it's important to get a regular tetanus booster, for example. Still, our new study may suggest another angle to look at things, which is how long do memory B cells last for this or that? Maybe there's some underlying biology that could explain why one thing might last longer than another...
...every disillusioned or disheartened Russia booster considering withdrawal, there's someone else who is eager to pile back in. On Aug. 11, Credit Suisse issued a research note arguing that this is a great time to buy Russian stocks. The market "has been punished excessively over the last couple of weeks," wrote analyst Vladimir Savov. "While warfare is never a good thing, fundamentally Russia's economy and infrastructure are not affected ... The likelihood of military involvement of other superpowers is below average. The situation may end soon, to be replaced by diplomatic negotiations." And even as bullets flew in Georgia...