Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's acquiescence may enable the group, which has suffered from sagging prices, to cut output to 18.5 million bbl, a day from its current runaway level of about 22 million bbl. Members hope the reduction will boost oil prices from about $12 per bbl. to the $15 range. Past agreements, however, have been stymied by members cheating on their quotas...
...plan shows a willingness on the part of the administration to listen to a student concern and try to address it. By increasing the number of ethnic course offerings from one this semester to five in the future, FAS would boost an academic area it has rarely noticed in the past. Students can only benefit from broadened offerings...
...phasing out remaining trade barriers, the U.S. and Canada should boost their industrial productivity, which will allow them to compete more effectively with Asian and European rivals. The members of the European Economic Community have already agreed to remove all of their internal barriers by 1992. Now, Canada and the U.S. have taken an important first step toward creating a competitive and cohesive North American economy...
...building blocks of matter and energy, the SSC -- or the Ronald Reagan Center for High Energy Physics, as its Texas boosters want to call it -- would attract the best experimental physicists in the world, with their attendant prestige. More important, it would give its home state a major economic boost. The machine's tunnel, a ring through which subatomic particles would race at nearly the speed of light, is to be 150 ft. underground and 53 miles in circumference; building it and the lab's 20 buildings could provide jobs for an estimated 4,000 construction workers. The completed facility...
...free the party from the "encumbrance" of special interests and move it to the center. A centrist candidate who was strong on defense was thought to have the best chance to win the 1988 election, and Super Tuesday was created in the South to give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster of "competence" and computer-friendly conduct, Michael...