Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slightly inflated in order to create a festive atmosphere for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Furthermore, the Russians often include in their output figures the value of the semi-finished goods imported and only finished in Soviet factories. The Washington economists also point out that to boost the statistics this year the Kremlin is concentrating on completing plants already started - and getting them into production - rather than on new factories to redound to the economy's benefit later...
...time bike racing may well be the world's most agonizing sport, and the pressure reaches a peak in the Tour de France-2,990 miles across the plains and mountains under a midsummer sun. Understandably, competitors often take a little something to boost their strength and spirit. Sometimes that little something is a little illegal...
...captured his third term last November with a 63% majority despite a 3-to-l Democratic registration edge; and Colorado's John Love, 50, now in his second term. Evans, who promoted prosperity by luring new industries and tirelessly plugging the state's products, has managed to boost spending for education and welfare while economizing on administrative expenses. Chafee has steered through a Democratic legislature a dazzling assortment of programs to improve education, health, transit and recreation services. Love has supported increased school appropriations, approved a statewide fair-housing law and signed a major liberalization of abortion practices...
...Mariner 5 responded smartly last week to signals radioed from Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thereby ensuring that its Oct. 19 date with Venus would be as intimate as intended. The spacecraft pitched, rolled and fired its rocket engine for 17.66 seconds, giving the spacecraft a 36-m.p.h. boost and arcing into a trajectory that should carry it past Venus at a distance of only 1,250 miles...
...week's A.A.U. Track and Field championships. Under the lights at Memorial Stadium in Bakersfield, Calif., a crowd of 11,600 watched in awe as a pair of second-year college boys proved that youth can serve itself, thank you, with record-breaking performances that did much to boost U.S. hopes for the 1968 Olympics-and beyond...