Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More will doubtless be attracted by an unusual spring gift catalogue that, in the style of Neiman-Marcus, offers such one-of-a-kind items as an endowed faculty chair (at a cost of $1 million). For a mere $10 million-with a 10% discount for cash-the Brown booster can even have the building housing the geology and chemistry departments named after him (no takers...
...clash. The protesters turned away, hurling insults at the militia ("Gestapo," "Whom do you serve?") as they walked toward the Vistula River. There the march broke up. Said one young worker triumphantly: "That was exactly what we wanted. There was no violence. It was a real morale booster...
...surprising outbreak of protest, by far the largest demonstration against the regime since martial law was declared last Dec. 13, was hardly a morale booster for Poland's junta leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in the week, Poland's Interior Ministry announced that sufficient progress had been made in "the normalization of public life" to justify lifting some of the more onerous martial-law restrictions. The nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be suspended (a concession that the protest may well have...
...Some master plotting is in order here--bizarre reversals, wacky characters, things going bump in the night. After all, Myra (Dyan Cannon) may be a bit too touchy/feely for her husband's effete tastes, but has-been Sidney (Michael Caine) would never murder her--he needs an ego-booster, not the missus's millions. Or does...
...weren't expecting them to be that strong, but after the Princeton upset it was a good ego-booster to prepare us for Yale," number-four Lisa Harrison said after the match...