Word: boosterism
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...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...
MOSCOW: When a booster on a Russian-made Proton-K rocket failed six hours into launch Friday, a $100 million U.S.-built communications satellite was lost in space. The Russian Space Agency looks to be close behind. The satellite, built by Hughes Space & Communications International in El Segundo, Calif., was fully insured, and a replacement will be ready in two years. But this was the third major failure of the DM-3 booster in the two years that the RSA has been carrying foreign satellites into space for desperately needed cash (charging about $70M a ride). Will Hughes ask again...
...confidence booster just to know that we can play, and probably could have beaten a Top 10 team," McCarthy said. "And it's the same situation for B.U.--just another cross-town rival...
Aaron S. Mathes '98 found out just how bad "constructive" criticism can be. At the end of the semester, he received an e-mail that listed his grades, followed by "a brief moral booster send-off." However, upon scrolling down the page, Mathes found the list of grades for all his T.F.'s students--the T.F. had clearly forgotten to delete it from the e-mail. The list included not only grades for all students, but also "the T.F.'s honest personal perceptions of each student," Mathes says. When he looked at the T.F.'s comments about him, he found...