Word: boosterism
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...pierce or tattoo that very skin. Yet increasingly they do. Tattooing and piercing, once the preference of biker chicks and sailors on shore leave, are attracting ever younger recruits. Chances are that someday soon your 12-year-old--the same kid who cried real tears over getting a booster shot at her last annual checkup--will be bugging you for a naval piercing or a tattoo of James Van Der Beek's face on her midriff...
...Robinson, who as CEO of American Express in the 1980s tried to marry banking, credit cards and other products with brokerage services in a financial supermarket. His plan dissolved amid corporate infighting and data-sharing nightmares that are now easily remedied with more powerful computers and better software. Another booster is Congressman Jim Leach, chairman of the House Banking Committee. He predicts that the bill will save consumers $15 billion a year in lower rates and fees...
After its confidence-booster against UNH last night, Harvard should be ready for the big pageant at home this weekend...
...with the likes of Kuala Lumpur or Atlanta. It is, after all, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing now, he'd have to call Chicago the Third City; Los Angeles has more people. Does that mean that some Chicago booster is concocting a scheme to annex Moline and move its population to the Loop? If so, please, stop...
Harvard's 15-8, 15-12, 15-12 win was a confidence booster at the time...