Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stability, however, the Reagan budget is woefully inadequate. For one thing, the President intends to raise $10 billion in 1989 through the sale of federal assets like the Naval Petroleum Reserves and other one-shot gimmicks that will do nothing to reduce the deficit permanently. The President wants to boost outlays for education, law enforcement, science and AIDS research -- all worthy proposals -- but steadfastly refuses to support tax hikes to finance increased spending over the long run. Moreover, Reagan's budget projections are based on the decidedly optimistic assumption that the gross national product will grow an average 3.2% annually...
...Simon, the results are cruelly frustrating. He got no boost at all from his respectable showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. Voters apparently have wearied of his bland image and vague proposals. In Gore's case, his stiff posture as the argumentative aginner in Democratic debates may be grating on the electorate...
...total score, Boitano held the narrowest of leads. His stronger showing in the painstaking figures (worth 30%) gave him the edge, despite Orser's higher marks in the short program (worth just 20%). But that segment, lasting no longer than 2 1/4 minutes, was a boost for both men. Orser delivered a jazzy Fred Astaire send- up that he later called "my best short program ever in competition." Boitano was also pleased, humbly mouthing "Thank you, God" just seconds after completing an elegant program that featured a cocky young skater at play...
Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis gave the symposium a boost by proclaiming Saturday Homeless Unity Day in Massachusetts and by sending aide Irene Lee to speak in his place...
...would really give a boost to our entire program, and I would be psyched for the entire year," Lind says. "We can skate with [the top teams] for two periods, and if we get that third period...