Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over Brown was a huge confidence booster," junior Dan Arbelaez said. "Brown and Harvard have been pretty equal over the years but head-to-head Brown's always come...
...doubt as to the existence of a correlation between academic exemptions and on-field performance seems to be removed with a glance at the Columbia football team; formerly the doormat of the league, it has recently regained respectability. According to one University donor and athletic booster, "It's no secret they decided Columbia needed to be more competitive, so they let them relax their standards a little bit more...
...should run as a Republican. Although the best G.O.P. operatives have already signed on with other candidates who have raised tens of millions of dollars, Dole has not caught fire, and many Republicans who back him publicly are "for Dole for now," in the words of one Powell booster. New Hampshire permits independents-more than 30% of the electorate-to vote in the G.O.P. primary, and Powell could draw enough of them to upset calculations of victory based on likely Republican voters. Other states, including Georgia, Texas, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, have primaries where non-Republicans can vote...
...shots or pills. Though excessive amounts of the hormone hae often been associated with aggressive, antisocial behavior, Samson presented research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles today showing that men who have too little of the hormone are less grouchy, nervous and irritable after a booster shot...
...rooter and booster of athletics in general. I'm trying to rein him in," Rosovsky jokes...