Word: boosters
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...mentioned his work in developing cruise missiles for submarines, military and research spacecraft, moon vehicles and the “Proton,” the world’s largest space booster...
...These matches] were a confidence-booster,” said freshman Alexis Martire, who beat Depontes at No. 2 singles, 6-1, 6-2. “It’s emotionally tiring to keep focused playing there the whole...
...pornography as it followed the adventures of a group of attractive young people sharing an apartment - and backrubs and showers. This irritated the Orthodox Church, but the Kremlin was more angered by TV-6's majority owner, Boris Berezovsky, a business baron during the Yeltsin era, an early Putin booster and now the President's exiled enemy. The animosity between Putin and Berezovsky is well-known and gave the station's criticism of Putin policies a harder edge. When they left NTV last year, the journalists were ready to fight. Now they sound tired...
...exercised options to buy 25,000 shares at $20.78 a share. The next day he exercised an additional 68,000 shares at $21.56. On both days, the stock closed around $36, which meant Lay netted nearly $1.5 million before taxes. He continued to be a huge booster for the stock for another month. As late as Sept. 26, Lay would try to reassure Enron employees that "our financial liquidity has never been stronger." But as the stock fell last fall, company employees were told that they would be unable to move any assets held in Enron stock into other securities...
...already strapped for cash trying to keep its dwindling fleet of 320 warships afloat, to spend several hundred million dollars to buy the cruise ships. Taylor got language added to the 2002 defense bill suggesting the Navy finish the vessels and put them out to sea as a morale booster for troops. The clause reads that the sea service should consider buying vessels "under construction in a U.S. shipyard" for leisure use, housing or a command ship. Though it doesn't mention the ships in Pascagoula, they're the only ones that fit the bill. The Secretary of the Navy...