Word: boosterism
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...students; it only opens up doors that would otherwise be closed to these talented and exceptional minority leaders. Today’s business world is still, unfortunately, haunted by the very real specter of racism, and superficial nods to colorblindness can only hinder progress. SVMP serves as an irreplaceable booster to qualified minority students, helping them to prepare for a world in which they will almost certainly be victims of deep-seated prejudice and bias...
...their way into Baghdad, they will be setting up shop in offices and hospitals that for the most part were carefully spared by U.S. bombers but were emptied of every last desk chair by people so poor, they looted the garbage. In Basra thieves wrecked equipment in the electrical booster stations, which in turn cut off the water supply once again. The headquarters of the company that oversees all oil production in the south of the country was pillaged. "Where is the security?" asked an enraged Kareem Judy, 42, an engineer in British-controlled Basra, as he stood outside...
...road from food industry executive to national arts booster is not a path well-traveled. But it is the path of Dana Gioia, a former General Foods vice president, Harvard alum, poet and newly appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts...
...really think he’s going to be a big confidence-booster,” Walsh says. “Our starting pitchers know they don’t have to go out there and get nine, like [Ben] Crockett and [Justin] Nyweide really did last year, getting a lot of complete games. Barry’s improved, and that’s going to be big news for our Ivy League opponents...
...despot's regime, Administration officials insisted, was too "brittle" to survive such an onslaught. Iraqi troops would defect en masse, they suggested. Intelligence and military officers had selected likely turncoats among the military's highest echelons. Just two days before the opening salvo, Richard Perle, a leading war booster on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, predicted, "Even those closest around the [Iraqi] President will understand they have no chance in the face of what's coming after them...