Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word that the maneuver was just a gimmick and "the issue is closed." He explained that he was reluctant to debate Humphrey solely because George Wallace would legally have a right to share the platform, and he did not want to give the Alabama racist a boost. It remains a question, however, whether Wallace would have a right to appear if another candidate paid for the air time. Still, a great many voters believe that Nixon should debate this year, just as Johnson should have debated in 1964, and Humphrey last spring...
...Ivory Coast, Nationalist Chinese experts are helping African farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
Pour la Patrie. Though bargain rates should put TV within reach of many companies, the number that can exploit the new advertising opportunity is limited by stiff government restrictions. Half the plugs must boost sales of certain food products to help French farmers unload their surpluses. The rest are equally divided between textiles and electric appliances, whose makers have been hurt by foreign competition. For non-French products, the chances of appearing on French TV screens are small. Before letting a commercial go on the air, the government has to be satisfied that its message serves the interests...
These familiar arguments were given an unexpected an unintended boost this week by Colonel Robert H. Pell, professor of military science and director of the Army ROTC program here. Col. Pell's personal defense of ROTC for credit is part of a fact sheet on the program the Harvard Undergraduate Council is circulating in the dining halls, and his justification of the program is far more damning of its academic merits than any of the rhetoric of ROTC critics...
...encourage social reform. Humphrey is convinced that the government must spend vast amounts of money to better the lot of Negroes, clean up the slums, improve health, transportation and education. Last month he came out for a 50% increase in social security pensions over the next four years, a boost that would ultimately cost $12 billion a year. Since all that money must come from somewhere, Humphrey is considerably less emphatic than Nixon in asserting that this year's 10% income surtax should expire as soon as the Viet Nam war can be ended...