Word: boosting
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...dense it can become, and in turn limits how hard its gravity can pull on the proto-planets. Beyond that, the planets' own gravity would fling gas around - the same sort of phenomenon NASA counts on, say, when a spacecraft en route to Saturn gets a slingshot velocity boost from Jupiter on the way. By adding in both effects, Mac Low's collaborator Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, now at Cambridge, found that there are places where the net force pushes a planet inward, but other places where it pushes outward. And in between those are places where the net force...
...Crimson could not close out Friday as well as the day began, falling to the Scarlet Knights in Newark, N.J. Freshman Tony Buxton (141) provided a boost for Harvard, opening the match with an 11-0 major decision. Coupled with a 6-3 decision for Keith, the rookies demonstrated their full potential...
...Crimson’s depth paid big dividends as Harvard got a boost from its bench throughout the night...
...cash into their reserves to account for their growing number of bad loans. That's caused earnings to plummet. With loans falling, reserve ratios - the measure of reserves to loans - are growing. That means banks will be able to divert less profit into those rainy-day accounts, which should boost bottom lines...
...evolutionary biologists are stumped as to what selective pressure would have led us to punish people who have cheated or harmed not the person who does the punishing but a third party - even if that party is not a genetic relation. Some biologists suggest that punishers benefit from a boost in social status and are thus more attractive as mates...