Word: boosting
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...amendments. Strauss has put together a strong coalition of supporters and appeased the most powerful enemies of the agreement. Opposition to reduced tariffs by textile and garment makers, for example, has been muffled by a promise of tighter enforcement of existing import quotas, as well as Government grants to boost productivity...
...main sticking point is the cost of living clause. The industry has offered the drivers a boost equal to 65% of the rise in the Consumer Price Index, to be paid on an annual basis. The final payment would not be made until the fourth year and would not be counted in the three-year package. The union insists on getting the increase twice a year, with the next-to-final payment falling due in the third year. That would lift the overall settlement two percentage points above what the Government is willing to accept...
Some big orders give the European wide-body a boost...
...think it was a very important game to win because we needed the boost in our confidence before we play Dartmouth on Saturday," Kent said yesterday...
What the U.S. failed to recognize, Galbraith says, is the true nature of the "equilibrium of poverty." He claimed that in the U.S., income can be increased simply by a little macroeconomic maneuvering, and most of the time each individual can boost his own economic status if he so wishes. In places like India, however, Malthusian forces keep the poor poor. Growing population and the overwhelming pressure of current needs swamp small increases in national product. The models of economic growth taught to eager American college students do not apply to a country with hordes of people on the edge...