Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This heavy-set, faintly ruddy Englishman has two professional causes. One is helping to boost the poor nations out of poverty. The other is simply, naively, to eliminate violence, now and in the future...
...Educational broadcasting was given a boost with the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which will subsidize noncommercial broadcast operations. - Terms for settling the national railroad strike were dictated after repeated extensions of the strike deadline failed to avert a stoppage...
...Committee is also rallying support for Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in his efforts to boost medical aid to Vietnam...
Equal Scoldings. The Administration's first reaction to the steel price boost was to use it as further evidence of the need for a 10% surtax. Chief White House Economist Gardner Ackley gave equal scoldings to both labor and management, noting that the steel increase represented "another turn in the wage-price spiral." Speaking at a Washington meeting of the Business Council, President Johnson talked of responsibility: "We know that wage and price changes are inevitable-and desirable-in a free-enterprise system. But those changes must be restrained by a recognition of fundamental national interest in maintaining...
...preserve at least some incentive to work, the proposal has at tracted remarkably disparate support -ranging from University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a 1964 adviser to Barry Goldwater, to Yale's James Tobin, a former economic adviser to President Kennedy. Last week the idea got a big boost from inside the business community when Ford Motor Co. President Arjay Miller endorsed it as a key step toward "the elimination of poverty...