Word: boosterism
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...Mary Bunting came in during our last semester. We hardly got the opportunity to see her, but it was such a morale-booster to have her show up,” Metz said. “Her predecessor was just kind of sleep-walking through the role. She came in full of energy and affirmation and really cheered...
Lingerie can be “a skimpy little layer of armor” and a confidence booster, according to Linda Ellison, Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. If that’s the case, then Forty Winks, an eco-friendly lingerie store that opened on JFK Street last Friday, is a well-stocked armory...
...played really well,” Lee said of playing outdoors for the first time since the fall. “I was really surprised, actually...I didn’t really know what it would be like being outside again, but to play well is definitely a confidence booster for the upcoming season...
...attendees. Amongst participants, if you were a single lady, you were proud to be one, and if you weren’t, you were still proud to be a lady. Last week’s workshop—not simply a dance class, but a welcome confidence-booster for Harvard’s women—proved that maybe everybody needs a “Single Ladies” dance party every once in a while...
...initiative, for now at least, is more about what NASA plans to cancel than what it plans to pursue. The six-year-old Constellation program, which had been focused on developing new boosters, Apollo-like orbiters and a 21st century lunar lander, all with the goal of making long-term stays on the moon possible, will be scrapped, after $9 billion and a single flight of the Ares 1 booster last October. The longer-term goal of venturing out to Mars is being tabled along with it. (See pictures of the Ares rocket...