Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this drive is to increase our registration toatal and to boost the percentage who actually end up donating," Gail Gabler '81, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive Committee, said yesterday...
SALT II gets needed boost...
...reporters crowded into a Senate conference room last week, the powerful West Virginia Democrat declared that the strategic arms pact with Moscow "is in our national interest" and could "help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still remains uncertain. But now Byrd will be using his proven talents as a cloakroom cajoler and persuader on the undecided Senators; among them...
Both those trends could boost the more conservative independent candidates--incumbents Thomas W. Danehy (Mayor), Kevin P. Crane, Lawrence A. Frisoli and Walter J. Sullivan and strong challengers Leonard Russell, Daniel Clinton and Richard Bentubo...
Today such a plot would be laughed out of town, unless, of course, it was called The Mickey Rooney Story. That is precisely what it is, and Mickey's success in Broadway's new hit, Sugar Babies, that happy send-off to burlesque, may very well boost his career back into orbit. Rarely has so much energy been packed into so small a package. Rooney dances, he sings, he mugs, he dresses in drag. Even when he's offstage, he's on, and his raucous laugh can be heard from the wings. "Seldom does a person...