Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was Vice President Salvador Laurel up to when he accused President Corazon Aquino of incompetence earlier this month and suggested that she resign? Manila's coffeehouse circuit suspected Laurel was more concerned about his political future than good government. That theory got a boost last week when Laurel joined Juan Ponce Enrile, Aquino's former Defense Minister, to launch a new opposition party. Laurel is expected to head the alliance, which includes disgruntled supporters of Ferdinand Marcos. Said Hernando Perez, a pro-Aquino member of the House of Representatives: "Laurel will join any party that will make him President...
...jump in the discount rate did give a short-term boost to the dollar. In one day, the value of the greenback jumped from 1.90 West German marks to 1.92, its highest level in 18 months. But by week's end foreign-exchange traders sold dollars and drove the value of the currency back down. They calculated that U.S. trading partners might intervene to prevent the U.S. currency from rising...
...Those few party officials who honestly support the choice say that Quayle has shorn up conservative support for the vice president and are boldly predicting that he will reduce the so-called "gender gap", bring in the Baby Boom vote for the Republicans, and give Bush a much-needed boost in the Midwest...
While the strike has been devastating to countless workers in show business and related industries, in the short run its impact could actually boost network profits. Advance sales of prime-time commercial slots are, unexpectedly, even stronger than last year's, while the cost of acquiring programs may be temporarily lower. Reruns are cheaper than first-time shows, reality-based programs cheaper than fiction, and foreign-made shows often cheaper than U.S. products...
...retain a memory of substances that had been dissolved in it. Physicists and biologists would have to drastically alter their view of matter, and pharmacologists would have to rethink conventional drug treatment. Moreover, homeopathic medicine, a fringe practice in the U.S. that is widespread in France, would get a boost. Homeopaths believe that extremely dilute solutions of some potentially harmful drugs, vigorously shaken -- a common homeopathic technique -- can treat disease...