Word: boosting
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...Navy and 208 for the Air Force). Many students are so eager for ROTC that next year the Army will add 16 more campuses. A student who signs up is committed to two years' active service as a second lieutenant. One attraction: he can boost his grades by taking relatively easy ROTC courses that carry as much as 30 hours of credit toward his B.A. degree. If he serves four years, he can get his entire undergraduate education paid for by the Army, plus $50 a month allowance. Now that draft deferments have ended for graduate students, ROTC looks...
Harvard's varsity wrestling team beat a lackluster Yale squad, 22-13, in New Haven Saturday to boost its Ivy record to 5-1, second-best in the League...
...icemen's record presently stands at 18-2, tying the present mark. A victory will boost their overall slate to 19-2 for a new record...
...first such decisions Turner will have to make is whether there will have to be two sets of public hearings before a highway can be approved. If he decided in favor of the second hearing proposal it would be a great boost in Cambridge's fight against the Inner Belt. But Washington sources held out little hope yesterday that Turner's decision will be favorable to Cambridge...
...convince Congress that it's better to give up what's been invested than to throw away any more. To that end, he spends many pages trying to prove that the SST will be obsolete before it is built. His argument here probably got a boost when the Russians unveiled their prototype SST late last fall; but even that has caused a semi-backlash, as a few Congressmen have urged the U.S. to step up its race to beat the Russians to the boom...