Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelist. He jumped at Vice President Dan Quayle's offer in April to become an unpaid consultant to the National Space Council, which Quayle heads. But the deal seems doomed. One problem: Clancy wants a full-time role in shaping policy, while Quayle is looking for a celebrity space booster. A bigger obstacle may be the law requiring officials with access to classified information to let Government censors peek at their manuscripts before publication. How could they be persuaded that those details of weapons and spycraft Clancy knits into his yarns are not national secrets...
Last week U.S. officials confirmed that the launching of a booster rocket July 5 at South Africa's De Hoop testing range was the successful first firing of a new long-distance missile developed with Israeli help. The missile has a 900-mile range, similar to that of Israel's nuclear-capable Shavit...
...Crimson booster nearly leaped out of his insignia sweatsuit at this sight. The folks at U.S. News & World Report were headed in the right direction, he said, but they had stopped way short of completion. "How in the name of Widener," he swore, "could anyone judge a school on just five broad criteria...
...graphite shells and finally by an aluminum shroud. The U.S. Department of Energy has spent $50 million testing the generators. In one experiment, engineers fired shrapnel traveling 700 ft. per sec. at the iridium casings. None was pierced. In another test, scientists tacked an RTG to a solid rocket booster and blew it up. No damaged graphite shells were detected...
Even if Burroughs refuses to reduce its price further, some patients may begin paying less for AZT treatment. Doctors are discovering that combining the potent antiviral drug with such other formulas as interferon (an immune- system booster) or probenecid (an antigout drug) lowers the dose of AZT necessary for effective treatment. In addition, people who are infected with the AIDS virus but show no symptoms need only about half the full-strength dose to slow the course of the disease...