Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fund-raisers will begin a massive telephone campaign in major cities across the country April 23 to boost the number of donors. Fund officials are aiming for contributions from 40 per cent of all alumni...
...consistency and intensity they lacked in previous seasons. With Resch and Smith keeping the nets safe, Potvin & Co. clearing the zone and Bossy-Trottier-Gillies a scoring machine, the Islanders needed primarily to work on one thing: attitude. Two late season victories against Montreal gave the team a big boost as the playoffs approached...
...their best one-day rally in five months. In Washington, the State Department called the rise "untimely and unjustified," and let it go at that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn the U.S. for acting as midwife to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
...much too low. Not only will the OPEC action add at least 2? to the already rising costs of gasoline, but as the price goes up, people will demand bigger paychecks from their employers. That will spread the increases through the whole economy, multiplying the impact. The latest OPEC boost will have a direct adverse effect on the nation's balance of payments. Last week the Commerce Department released some cheering figures showing that the trade deficit shrank in February to a 22-month low, in part because of a $700 million decline in oil imports from Iran...
...grow and harvest the grain and distill the alcohol from it than the alcohol produces when burned. For every 4 B.T.U.s of energy that are used to make alcohol, only 2.5 B.T.U.s are generated. Advocates argue that is not the point. Alcohol, they say, offers a way to boost stockpiles of liquid fuels, which are all that can be used in autos and which are in shortest supply...