Word: boosterism
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...Dole's rivals laid a glove on him at the New Hampshire forum last week, the man who has run for President twice before was unable to explain why he was in the race without referring to a text. The lapse wasn't lost on Team Gingrich: Newt booster Arianna Huffington appeared on CNN Friday night and lit into Dole as "this tired old man" who had to "read from note cards...
...over Brown was a huge confidence booster," junior Dan Arbelaez said. "Brown and Harvard have been pretty equal over the years but head-to-head Brown's always come...
...what of synergy, the idea that different but related businesses can be combined into a whole greater than the sum of the parts? Allen was a big booster in 1991, when he engineered a $7.4 billion hostile takeover of computer-making NCR. But while the marriage of computers and communications might seem a natural, AT&T could never make it work. For the first three quarters of this year, the computer business lost an estimated $500 million...
...doubt as to the existence of a correlation between academic exemptions and on-field performance seems to be removed with a glance at the Columbia football team; formerly the doormat of the league, it has recently regained respectability. According to one University donor and athletic booster, "It's no secret they decided Columbia needed to be more competitive, so they let them relax their standards a little bit more...
...should run as a Republican. Although the best G.O.P. operatives have already signed on with other candidates who have raised tens of millions of dollars, Dole has not caught fire, and many Republicans who back him publicly are "for Dole for now," in the words of one Powell booster. New Hampshire permits independents-more than 30% of the electorate-to vote in the G.O.P. primary, and Powell could draw enough of them to upset calculations of victory based on likely Republican voters. Other states, including Georgia, Texas, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, have primaries where non-Republicans can vote...