Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) January 13 outlawed personal recruiting by alumni or team "booster" associations. The rule changed designed to prevent major universities from illegally recruiting, effectively cripples Harvard's varsity athletic recruiting program, coaches and officials said...
...North American Aerospace Defense Command, whose cameras, radars and computers keep track of the more than 5,000 objects now in orbit, that Cosmos 1402 was not following this scenario. When it broke into three pieces on Dec. 28, all languished in the same orbit, perhaps because of a booster failure. With each swing around the earth, the nuclear reactor's orbit shrank a little more. Some U.S. officials speculate that the Soviets might be able to destroy the reactor with a remaining explosive charge, or even a burst from one of their killer satellites, a risky procedure that...