Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern about that possibility last week, when it opposed Eastern Air Lines' proposed $75 million sale of eight gates at the Philadelphia airport to USAir. Reason: USAir would control 23 of the airport's 49 gates. Consumer activists contend that such dominance gives a carrier an unfair ability to boost fares...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...
...voice in running the schools. The district is offering a 21.5% increase over three years. Unless the walkout is resolved, it could postpone graduation for about 35,000 seniors and delay class promotions for most of Los Angeles' 594,000 public-school students. The teachers' cause got an apparent boost last week when Governor George Deukmejian announced that the state had an unanticipated tax windfall of $2.5 billion, as much as $228 million of which may eventually trickle down to the Los Angeles Unified School District, if the state legislature approves. No check is in the mail...
...Guide is broke and needs to be fixed," says Joseph Cece, installed by Murdoch as TV Guide president. "This is one of the most enormously successful magazines in the history of publishing. What we're doing is looking to take it to a new level." The goal is to boost circulation to 18 million, he says, mostly by increasing newsstand sales. The next gimmick: a 16-page insert of discount coupons, to run at least once a month beginning in June...
Also, the legislation would make it easier for corporations to set up shareholder rights plans, or "poison pill" defenses, which boost the price of a takeover by giving shareholders an automatic right to buy additional shares...