Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women, the meet was a confidence-booster, because it came against perhaps the two best Ivy teams. For the past four years, Cornell and Brown have traded off winning the indoor Heptagonals...
DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
Republicans grumbled that Dole can hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...Dole's rivals laid a glove on him at the New Hampshire forum last week, the man who has run for President twice before was unable to explain why he was in the race without referring to a text. The lapse wasn't lost on Team Gingrich: Newt booster Arianna Huffington appeared on CNN Friday night and lit into Dole as "this tired old man" who had to "read from note cards...
...what of synergy, the idea that different but related businesses can be combined into a whole greater than the sum of the parts? Allen was a big booster in 1991, when he engineered a $7.4 billion hostile takeover of computer-making NCR. But while the marriage of computers and communications might seem a natural, AT&T could never make it work. For the first three quarters of this year, the computer business lost an estimated $500 million...