Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This game was a boost for us and will help us for the Brown game--we can do this against anyone," Brynteson said...
...surprisingly, House hawks figured that Carter's promise also extended to their efforts to boost the military budget. They therefore asked the Defense Department for help in lobbying for the increase, and were angered when the military refused, on orders from the White House. Carter advisers explained that Democratic congressional leaders had asked the Executive Branch to stay out of the budget fight in the House. The leaders figured that the bill to be voted on last week contained all the money for the military that liberals would accept; lobbying by the Administration for anything more might cause liberals...
Henry Kissinger and some Senators have urged linking ratification of the treaty with a significant boost in the U.S. military budget to offset increased Soviet arms spending of the past five years. That is a creditable argument, since SALT must enhance U.S. defenses as well as help control arms. But there are no grounds for linking SALT to the Soviet brigade in Cuba. The Soviets say the unit has been there for 17 years, and U.S. intelligence sources concede it has been there for at least ten, so the brigade is not even symbolically part of the global Soviet buildup...
Your report on the presidential ambitions of Governor Brown noted that he would "get a boost from the Haydens, who ... will tour 50 cities with the occasional assistance of such notables as Cesar Chavez, Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson...
...barnstorming opera singer spends long hours of isolation in hotels, studying, resting (Pavarotti sleeps ten to twelve hours before a performance) or simply killing time. Pavarotti's wife Adua joins him on tour for a few weeks each year, and friends consider her spirited, sensible ministrations a tremendous boost for him. Says one of them: "At least she doesn't stand in the wings with holy water like the wives of some Italian tenors." But Pavarotti manages only a handful of flying visits home to Modena. He misses family life. He is perplexed by his remoteness from his fast growing...