Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could Carter take pleasure in all of his own party's winners. California Governor Jerry Brown, who defeated Carter in three primaries in 1976, was re-elected by a whopping 1.3 million votes, though the turnout was modest. The landslide gave him a strong boost toward a 1980 presidential...
...Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than $2.6 billion, making it almost twice the size of its nearest international rival, Japan's Dentsu, and all but dwarfing the two other U.S. giants, J. Walter Thompson and Young & Rubicam...
...Treasury aide initially told Carter that the increase would be the largest since 1921. Demonstrating his awesome?and to some advisers infuriating ?grasp of detail, the President quickly corrected him: there had been a one-point leap in 1933, and the 1921 boost the aide had been thinking of was actually a point and a quarter...
...warned his collection agents that they may have to lean harder on customers to pay their bills: "People try to get free credit out of their suppliers when it gets harder to borrow elsewhere." Nonetheless, he says, "people are glad to see some measures being taken, and the psychological boost might actually encourage expansion...
...Pierre Roy '79-3, and HRDC board member who voted in favor of the program, said yesterday, "Harvard theater needs a real boost, and the Yale Repertory certainly could give it that shot...