Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both decided to stay the course themselves. In the scene where the rats attack Borgnine, prop men stood overhead and poured the live furries down on him. One rat, obviously carried away with the drama of the moment, drew a little Borgnine blood. No matter: after a quick tetanus booster (for Borgnine), both were back in action...
...voltage field, they are pushed by powerful pulses of high-frequency radio waves through a relatively short (500 ft.) linear accelerator. In the process, their energy is boosted to 200 million electron volts. Next, the protons are speeded through a 500-ft.-diameter doughnut-shaped device called a synchrotron booster, in which synchronized surges of power increase the energy of the protons to 8 billion electron volts. Then, in the vacuum tube of the big ring, the protons are accelerated by similarly synchronized pulses of such high energy that when they smash into the target areas, they will be traveling...
Eight hundred pages long and two inches thick, the book is an imposing object that should find many uses. It could serve, for instance, as a booster seat for Junior, a wheel chock for the family car, a dead weight that could instantly sink a prosperous 68-year-old author into the East River. Just don't try to read the thing. It isn't easy to transform one of the great creative adventures of human history into a load of bull, but Stone has turned the trick. The only fun his book provides is the chance...
Only slightly less overjoyed were high NASA officials, who badly needed a morale booster after congressional cuts in the space agency's appropriations, the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13 last April, and the recent successes of Soviet space robots. Indeed, the unmanned moon rover, Lunokhod 1-which came back to life last week on the lunar surface 900 miles north of Apollo 14's Fra Mauro landing site-seemed very much on the mind of Acting NASA Administrator George Low. The flight of Apollo 14, Low said, "demonstrated that man belongs in space, that man can achieve...
Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...