Word: boosting
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...using every race opportunity to get faster.” With these wins, both the lightweight and heavyweight squads find themselves in a good position going into the EAWRC Sprints May 17. “Obviously it was a great day for the team, a big confidence boost to know that we are the fastest team on the Charles,” said heavyweight varsity eight coxswain Jill Carlson. “The size of the margins are really telling, so that’s another confidence booster for us going into Sprints.” —Staff...
...addition to the Fiat 500, which is well known for its styling, Chrysler executives also are known to be interested in Fiat's small, turbo-charged diesel engines, which would immediately give a company best known for minivans a big fuel-economy boost...
...staggering 22%, the film industry is providing a rare economic boom. Community colleges now offer courses in set-building and stage-lighting for the out-of-work construction workers and electricians. Car-rental companies, caterers, hotels, carpenters, dry cleaners and other service providers are all getting a needed boost. In the suburb of Troy, 20 miles (32 km) north of Detroit, one hotel was getting ready to cut staff when Gran Torino came to town. Instead of laying people off, the hotel ended up hiring 15 additional employees. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...budget that just passed both houses of Congress has given the prospects for health-care reform this year a big boost. With the inclusion of procedural language that would make it impossible for opponents to filibuster, it will now take a simple majority to pass the Senate, rather than 60 votes, simplifying the political arithmetic considerably...
...they are used to manufacture final products for shipment to the West. This network broke down as demand in the U.S. and Europe shriveled, but economists say China's stimulus program might be filling in some of the lost sales. Programs to spur domestic consumer spending in China have boosted purchases of items like appliances and automobiles. The success of the stimulus program, economists say, may be rejuvenating intra-Asia trade links and created a boost to exports from other Asian nations. Singapore's exports to China actually rose a substantial 14% in March from a year earlier, while those...