Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were reports of an enormous but still unacknowledged disaster: a giant Soviet booster was said to have exploded on the launchpad, killing hundreds of technicians, along with high-ranking Soviet military officers...
...nine years behind the U.S. in advanced computer technology. Today that lag is only about three or four years. Western intelligence sources say that a determined push by the Soviets has brought them close to achieving two of their long-cherished goals: a space shuttle and a super-booster for launching huge modules that would make up a large, complex space station. American reconnaissance satellites have photographed two big new boosters on the launchpads at Tyuratam and new runways for the shuttle. A congressional study describes the Salyut missions as "the cornerstone of an official policy which looks not only...
...Communist country. But as both parties held primaries last week to nominate candidates for the Senate seat vacated by ailing Democrat Paul Tsongas, there were signs that the political winds were shifting. In a stunning upset, Political Neophyte Raymond Shamie, a conservative Republican businessman and unabashed Reagan booster, trounced former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, a progressive with a mile-long resume of public service, by an astounding 24 points (62% to 38%). Said Boston Political Consultant Michael Goldman...
William Safire, a self-styled "libertarian conservative," is also out of favor at the White House. In a recent column he complained that though he had once been a "lonely Reagan booster," he has been denied any interviews with Reagan because Safire "from time to time was-in Mr. Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them...
...second-and fourth-grade teacher in a Queens public school, she took night law classes at Fordham University, with financial help from her mother. The Congresswoman still uses her maiden name as a gesture of gratitude. Her mother remains an almost daily phone confidante and a shameless booster. Says the elder Ferraro: "Geraldine is such a hard worker. What honor she does...