Word: boostering
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Then Prins set out to fill the new buses. He installed sleeper seats for Kansas City ski buffs taking the overnight bus to Colorado resorts. He also put video games in some buses and movies on others. Prins' biggest revenue booster was special, cut-rate tours. Example: for $49.95, passengers can take a two-day trip from Des Moines to Minneapolis, complete with dinner and one night at a good hotel. Greyhound and Trailways charge more than $80 for the same round trip, without the hotel or the meal, and airfare is $100 one way. Jefferson now offers tours...
With funds provided mainly by booster groups, some of these teams plan to travel to place like Florida. Maryland, and Tennessee in search of competition and sunny climes...
...mentor in the Administration, Interior Secretary James Watt, advised her that her support was eroding and that she should consider quitting. Finally, shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, she received a call from Reagan Friend Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewery mogul, who had been her faithful booster. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese had asked Coors to break the news. Gently, Coors told Burford that the President, though with great reluctance, would accept her resignation. She immediately called Meese and said she wanted to meet with Reagan that afternoon...
...facility's budget of $1.035 million will be covered largely through alumni donations. Friends of Harvard Track, an outside booster organization, will be the largest donor with about 10 percent. The Business School, located adjacent to the Soldiers Field athletic complex, will also donate funds...
...David M. Morris '84, former associate chairman of the Hillel Coordinating Council, disagreed, saying. "This is a morale booster because it shows that people all over the world care, in addition to being a great way to come up with ideas...