Word: boosterism
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...Secretary is striving to hold back the right-wingers from forcing a sale of jet fighters to Taiwan, an action that could unhinge our tender relations with mainland China. Candidate Reagan was a Taiwan booster. President Reagan may see it differently if Haig's entreaties are skillful. On the Middle East, Haig is trying to keep his Government, and others, from plunging recklessly after the Saudi peace plan; even a mild endorsement of that flawed proposal, he feels, would wreck the Camp David process and might damage all prospects for Middle East peace...
...Soviets appear to be developing a space booster with six to seven times the thrust of the U.S. space shuttle...
When the play was first done in 1599, the defeat of the Spanish Armada was fresh in everyone's mind. In our time, the prevailing attitude toward the play was largely conditioned by Laurence Oliver's 1944 film version, made as a morale booster for war-torn Britain. The Henry acted by Olivier here is the only really first-rate performance among his five Shakespeare's play. He omitted the conspiracy plot, Bardolph's execution, Williams' challenge about the responsibility for war, the king's threats of rape and pillage and his order to kill the prisoners...
...Paris ("Très jolie!" "Excellent trajectory!"). The rocket carried a European weather observatory called Meteosat 2, an Indian communications satellite and a packet of heat-measuring devices. The flawless launch marked the first time the European Space Agency (ESA) had sent major payloads into orbit with its own booster...
...instinctively link everything I do with the musical achievements accumulated in these latitudes for more than 2,500 years." Long on cerebration and sometimes short on funk, the Eicher approach evolved from early infatuations with Coleman, John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Talking about jazz, he still sounds like a booster for the home team. "As much as I like and appreciate the African spontaneity that propels so much jazz, I feel that the Western orbit has a specific quality to add. Complex polyphonies. Extended silences. The value of the contemplative...