Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple of months before his death, Kennedy went to Cape Canaveral to view the first stage of the giant Saturn rocket. Even as his scientists argued off to the side about how to land men on the moon, the President for a moment stood alone beneath the huge booster casing, rocked back on his heels and stared up. For those seconds, I could see he was beyond the earth, above the quibbling technicians. He was riding with history. I think he knew it was going to work...
...definitely an improvement," Bates said after the change was announced last fall. "Besides the actual funding, you know, the athletes have always been working hard, and for them to get this is just a real confidence booster...
Another morale booster came at the end of theregular season. Harvard had hit a bit of a rut andlooked like it would drop its final to 10th-placeSt. Lawrence...
...Yale defeated Northeastern by only three seats," Voldins explained. "When a crew has a good race, even if it loses, it can be a big confidence booster. Those kinds of races can makes a boat feel a lot stronger than it really...
...irrefutable medical evidence on secondhand smoke," says Mark Green, New York City public advocate and a longtime supporter of antismoking measures, "has been the booster rocket launching the antismoking movement into orbit." Notes an EPA official: "We had no real sense of how big this report was going to be. But it has become the major catalyst for the reforms we're seeing all over the country...