Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, by week's end Chernomyrdin had confirmed his intention to run for President. Kommersant, a leading daily, concluded, "We can pronounce the once superpowerful Premier politically dead." But Boris Berezovsky, one of Moscow's most influential business tycoons, talked with Chernomyrdin last week and came out a booster. Only a week before, he had declared on television that Chernomyrdin was "unelectable" in 2000. Now Berezovsky says the former Prime Minister is "full of energy to fight for the presidency," a run Berezovsky says he is ready to support "unconditionally." This is puzzling because Berezovsky is also an unpaid adviser...
...Clinton avoids the potential for even more personal embarrassment. (Although at this point, how much worse could it get?) Further, with impeachment now a politically-suicidal option for the Republicans, he can focus on salvaging the remainder of his term. His fellow Democrats can more comfortably stand by their Booster-in-Chief as they head into the '98 campaign...
...performance against Lehigh should be a confidence booster entering this weekend's Ivy games against Brown and Yale. Harvard's 4-0 record leads the league, but Brown boasts two of the league's top players in senior Liz Turner and junior Vita Redding...
...damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...
...hipster could relieve his mid-life crisis with an Italian sports car the size of a Shriner go-cart. Affluent Americans of the 1990s--so responsible at home, so productive in the workplace--want a car designed for war. With its four-wheel drive and tons of torque and booster-rocket horsepower, today's sports-utility vehicle would have come in handy at the Battle of the Bulge. On the road its driver faces no obstacle more menacing than a pothole, but he knows that if he wants, he can swing off the highway and climb a sand dune, ford...