Word: boosting
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Jordan also said that the controversy will give the Democrats a boost in their race to win the 1988 generalelection...
...finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven -- the U.S., West Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Italy and Canada -- to discuss ways of moderating currency swings. For the U.S., another goal of the session was to persuade Japan and West Germany to stimulate their economies. That would boost their imports of American products and help ease the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $170 billion last year. Higher exports would also spur the sluggish U.S. economy. The gross national product grew at an annual rate of only 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 1986, the Government reported last...
...Crimson had dropped its previous two road meets to Army and Princeton, and with the Eastern Championships only 10 days away, the trip to the Keystone State proved a boost for both the squad and Coach Joe Bernal...
...poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom are Rossignol trained. The case against the skis gained new evidence when a French downhill contender, Philippe Verneret, substituted skis from an Austrian company for his final run and improved his time by two seconds, enough to boost him from 27th to eleventh place...
While passage of the constitution certainly enhanced Aquino's prestige, it also placed some new constraints on her. So far, she has been reluctant to undertake any major initiatives on land reform or to boost the economy without the support of a constitution. But along with that legitimacy will come a new legislature, which could slow down or even frustrate her plans. Notes Alex Magno, a political analyst who teaches at the University of the Philippines: "By the time the Aquino presidency has developed the confidence to introduce innovative policies, it has lost the extraordinary powers necessary to give those...