Word: boosterism
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...these are not the 1960s, and in recent years NASA's reputation has plummeted faster than a burned-out rocket booster. Ever since the Challenger blew up less than two minutes after liftoff in January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the agency has seemed lost in space. Shuttle launches have been delayed by mechanical glitches more often than not. Satellites have mysteriously stopped transmitting while in orbit. Space probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe...
...political voyage of Ted Turner continues. First, the cable entrepreneur became a full-time booster of East-West friendship, sponsoring the Goodwill Games. Then he took up the cause of the environment. Now he is launching his most ambitious educational-programming venture yet: a yearlong series of shows about Native Americans...
...market for only the first six to nine months but then start lagging behind. After two years, IPOs were typically underperforming the S&P by 20%. Michaely explains that IPO prices are usually propped up by their lead underwriters in the early stages with positive reports known as "booster shots." But these shots also tend to coincide with heavy selling by insiders. "The buyer, or the sucker," he says, "is usually the small investor...
...definitely an improvement," she said. "Besides the actual funding, you know, the athletes have always been working hard, and for them to get this is just a real confidence booster...
...Mogadishu. When Captain Ted Campagna and his infantry company arrived in the city of Jilib, an average of 60 local people died each day, mostly from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started to see all the crops, you'd say, 'We made a big difference in Somalia...