Word: boosting
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...future." Wang seems eager. "I really enjoyed the game against the American Dream Team at the 1996 Olympics," he says (the U.S. won, 133-70). It's not only Wang's height that appeals to the NBA. U.S. basketball is already popular in China, and a Chinese player would boost that popularity to a new level. Says Mary Reiling Spencer, vice president and managing director for NBA Pacific: "It would be huge...
Whether a candidate flaunts or hides his Harvard credentials in public, the Harvard connection can provide a major boost to a campaign operation behind the scenes...
...Frank says that at the beginning of his career, his Harvard affiliation did provide a boost...
Harvard's teaching hospital's are getting a much-needed $20 million boost in funding over the next five years, University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin announced last week...
...hike in the Consumer Price Index, with just a 0.1 hike in the "core" rate - sparked a 100-point rally that traders promptly sold off for fun and profit. On the Fed watch, TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl figures today?s number and yesterday?s ?- a mildly alarming boost in retail sales ?- cancel each other out. "My sense from the last meeting was that the Fed was done unless it saw some clear and unambiguous evidence that inflation was on the rise," he says. "And there certainly hasn?t been any of that." Plus, says Baumohl, there...