Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colonial enclave in the New World, the Old World is finally taking its own giant step into the cosmos. In the midst of the rain forest rises the launch complex for one of the world's newest and most powerful rockets: Ariane, a 155-ft.-high three-stage booster on whose mighty thrusters ride Western Europe's hopes of challenging the long U.S. and Soviet domination of space...
...indefatigable booster, FDR spent much of his editorial venom on those men who lounged about their rooms, not attending practice to cheer on the football team, not coming out for various squads, and not listening to speeches. One of his reading period papers featured this appeal: "It seems a pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer...
...counting on Grant Tinker, a highly regarded Hollywood studio executive and onetime producer of the successful Mary Tyler Moore series, to bring back the viewers. Bradshaw appointed Tinker last summer to replace the widely disliked Fred Silverman as head of NBC. The appointment has been praised as a morale booster at the net work. Said an NBC producer: "You don't have to keep your back against a wall for protection all the time now. When Fred was around, you did." It remains to be seen, though, whether Tinker can translate good vibes among his staff to a boost...
...Secretary is striving to hold back the right-wingers from forcing a sale of jet fighters to Taiwan, an action that could unhinge our tender relations with mainland China. Candidate Reagan was a Taiwan booster. President Reagan may see it differently if Haig's entreaties are skillful. On the Middle East, Haig is trying to keep his Government, and others, from plunging recklessly after the Saudi peace plan; even a mild endorsement of that flawed proposal, he feels, would wreck the Camp David process and might damage all prospects for Middle East peace...
...Soviets appear to be developing a space booster with six to seven times the thrust of the U.S. space shuttle...