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...would be a great momentum booster for this weekend,” Nyweide said. “We have to take each game we can to get back to .500 and work to go beyond that...
...Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vt. Currently the program can be found in some 3,000 public schools across the nation, and its Pentagon funding is expected to rise more than 50%, from $215 million last year to $326 million by 2004. JROTC has its best-known booster in Colin Powell, who was a ROTC cadet as a student at City College of New York. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he decided that JROTC offered the best prescription for saving lost inner-city youths...
...mentioned his work in developing cruise missiles for submarines, military and research spacecraft, moon vehicles and the “Proton,” the world’s largest space booster...
...These matches] were a confidence-booster,” said freshman Alexis Martire, who beat Depontes at No. 2 singles, 6-1, 6-2. “It’s emotionally tiring to keep focused playing there the whole...
...pornography as it followed the adventures of a group of attractive young people sharing an apartment - and backrubs and showers. This irritated the Orthodox Church, but the Kremlin was more angered by TV-6's majority owner, Boris Berezovsky, a business baron during the Yeltsin era, an early Putin booster and now the President's exiled enemy. The animosity between Putin and Berezovsky is well-known and gave the station's criticism of Putin policies a harder edge. When they left NTV last year, the journalists were ready to fight. Now they sound tired...