Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That means assuring bureaucrats, intellectuals and skilled workers essential to China's development that they will not be summarily sent off to the rice paddies or driven to suicide, as they often were under Mao. Fear of government highhandedness, party leaders now admit, has been running rampant. To boost morale and bring great order, the resurgent moderates who now run China last year adopted a constitution that provides for open and fair trials, and they have promised a new criminal code within the year. Foreign investors will also get legal protection from China, which sorely needs infusions of technology...
...addition, Blaine Heckle, an ex-Harvard vaulter, an assistant coach for the women's track team and a physics tutor, helped boost Stiles's mental attitude by explaining the vault in scientific terms...
...prices will go much higher than that if OPEC's prices also keep climbing. The run-up has already sparked fears that the entire cartel, which only last December announced a general 1979 increase of 14.5%, will soon declare yet another boost in order to keep from breaking up in a mad scramble after ever higher prices. As if to sanctify the money grab, OPEC headquarters in Vienna announced that individual price adjustments by members were perfectly all right "in light of their prevailing circumstances...
...regarded as the principal force for price restraint in the cartel, but statements from Riyadh last week were discouraging. After calling for urgent OPEC consultations, the Saudi government merely promised that it would not raise prices until after the end of March. Oilmen read that as a plan to boost in early April...
Such action by Harvard would boost the morale of the anti-apartheid; movement both in Africa and world-wide. Conversely, it would be a powerful blow to the arrogant self confidence of the Nationalists in South Africa. As Donald Woods, exiled South African newspaper editor and Harvard Nieman fellow, explained in a recent interview with The Crimson: The South African government has this belief that Uncle Sam will always bail it out. It looks upon Americans as basically white and believes that they'll think racially. It's my belief that until something is done that actually costs the United...