Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That epiphany proved to be exactly the confidence-booster Harvard needed...
...Robbins, 75, who looked spry and acute in rehearsal. "But Misha wanted to try something, and I want to work with smaller forces now. I started listening to the music. It began to open up." Musing on his work with Baryshnikov, he adds, "It's given me a real booster. I can't think of anyone better to work with. If I think it's too dark, he lightens it -- and vice versa. A great, great artist...
...these are not the 1960s, and in recent years NASA's reputation has plummeted faster than a burned-out rocket booster. Ever since the Challenger blew up less than two minutes after liftoff in January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the agency has seemed lost in space. Shuttle launches have been delayed by mechanical glitches more often than not. Satellites have mysteriously stopped transmitting while in orbit. Space probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe...
While it might be a good idea to put human space flight on hold while the booster problem is re-examined, that isn't likely to happen. Men went into space not so much for the sake of science but because of cold-war competitiveness. Although the space race is long gone, an equally compelling foreign policy consideration has replaced it: the need to engage the Russians in international alliances and keep their technology headed in peaceful directions. That was one of the President's main motives in offering them $1 billion in return for their help on the space...
...political voyage of Ted Turner continues. First, the cable entrepreneur became a full-time booster of East-West friendship, sponsoring the Goodwill Games. Then he took up the cause of the environment. Now he is launching his most ambitious educational-programming venture yet: a yearlong series of shows about Native Americans...