Word: boosterism
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...also a pride-booster when someone does something very special in front of the hometown crowd. Such was the case for Harvard freshman Meg Kassakian, a graduate of Newton North High School. Kassakian's former assistant coach Don Satter came to Ohiri Field to watch his former star in action and brought another high school team. Satter and his squad got to see Kassakian beat a couple of Eagle players and pass the ball to wide-open sophomore Megan Hall, who beat the Eagle goalie for the third Crimson goal that sealed the Crimson victory...
...take advantage of a burst of technological progress -- and it shows. Thanks to a skin as thin as a credit card, which replaces the heavy aluminum shell of conventional spacecraft, the rocket is light enough to leap into orbit in a single bound, avoiding the wasteful shedding of expensive booster stages. The DC-X is the world's first fully reusable spacecraft, and its myriad computer systems make it easy to launch and repair. It can be fired off by a crew of three, far fewer than the army of 1,700 needed by the shuttle. Bottom line: the Delta...
...worst fallout of the explosion was the doubt it created about the reliability of the newly designed Titan IV booster, on which both the Air Force and CIA are heavily dependent. The 12-story-high booster is the only rocket capable of launching a whole family of space-surveillance systems. Martin Marietta has delivered or has under construction about half of the 41 Titan IVs currently on order. Colonel Frank Stirling, director of the Air Force's Titan IV program, immediately grounded two other boosters scheduled for launch and said the delay could last up to a year...
...substance at the center of the dispute is a naturally occurring protein known to scientists as bovine somatotropin, or more simply, bovine growth hormone (BGH). Dairy farmers have known for decades that cows given booster shots of BGH would produce more milk -- up to 15% more. But the only available source of the hormone was the pituitary glands of butchered cows, which yield only minute quantities. Then, in 1982, scientists used new gene-splicing techniques to manipulate bacteria into mass-producing BGH. By the mid-1980s, four drug companies -- including Monsanto and Eli Lilly -- had applied...
...long way toward meeting Jeffords' demands by the time the week was out. After insisting for several weeks that he would not compromise with Republicans, Clinton agreed to reduce his spending package by $4 billion and perhaps more, rather than risk losing a measure he believes represents a "booster shot" to the anemic economic recovery. The President had learned the hard way that as long as the Democrats hold only a narrow six-vote majority (Democrat Richard Shelby of Alabama has been voting Republican recently) in the Senate, Clinton will need the votes of Jeffords and four or five other...