Word: boosting
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...moment, Stempel, 55, is the leading candidate to succeed chairman Roger Smith, who must retire at 65 in July 1990. The prospect of an engineer taking charge for only the second time in GM's 80-year history is providing a much needed morale boost for many dealers and employees. "He can talk about automobiles," says Carl Sewell, a Cadillac dealer in Dallas. "He can talk about the engine. He can talk about the transmission. The guy is what we've been looking...
...masters' push to boost diversity derives from concerns raised last spring. In March, the Standing Committee on Athletics (SCA) sparked controversy when it suggested placingquotas on the number of varsity athletes who couldlive in each house...
...that State President P.W. Botha did not thoroughly prepare for last week's segregated local elections. Determined to boost the number of black voters in order to prove that they preferred officially sponsored "reform" to violent revolution, the government banned 18 antiapartheid organizations in February for organizing a boycott of the racially divided balloting. In June the government declared it a crime to advocate a boycott, but many defiant black clergymen and academics urged one anyway...
Although the two major parties in Israel ran even in yesterday's election, a boost in support for the religious right may enable the conservatives to form a governing coalition, a panel of experts on Israeli politics said yesterday night...
Administrators and students said yesterday that the new visiting professor program would boost the number of ethnic studies classes from one this year to about five annually and bring more minority scholars to campus. The new courses will cover the experiences of various ethnic groups in the United States, including Asians, Hispanics, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans...