Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
...cesspool beside the public toilet, and a peasant lying on the ground, his face blue, no longer breathing. These people were members of a production brigade of one of Dairen's suburban communes, who had heeded Chairman Mao's great call to grasp revolution and boost production, and had come into the city to collect manure...
...hardly lolling abed either. Nixon scheduled the swearing-in ceremony for eleven of the twelve department heads for 8 a.m. (Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's confirmation was delayed by opposition from some Senate Democrats. He was sworn later in the week.) Perhaps to further his effort to boost the Cabinet's prestige, Nixon suggested that one of its members might run for President some day. After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time...
...since much long-distance mail now goes by air anyway; the new flat rate would be 7? an ounce. Congressional salaries would go from $30,000 to $42,500 a year, those of Cabinet members from $35,000 to $60,000. (Last week the Congress approved a 100% salary boost for the President, to $200,000.) Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm-price supports and $120 million in foreign aid. He asked for an extra $743 million for the Department of Housing...
Just how substantial that boost is and how sustained the University community's new awareness of its relations with the city will be is is hard to tell. Compiling a report is only a first step--a significant step to be sure--toward altering the University's actions in the community. In issuing the report, Wilson and his committee called for Faculty and student debate of the subject. That debate will probably prove more important than the report itself...