Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capitol Hill over the removal or retention of Government price controls for natural gas. Last week, just a year after Carter first invited the nation into the trenches, the gas deadlock finally appeared to have been broken and the energy program to have been given an urgently needed boost...
Torrijos badly needs the treaty to give a boost to Panama's economy. The pact would increase Panamanian canal revenues from $2.3 million a year to as much as $60 million if tolls are raised and traffic is sustained. But if forced to choose between economic malaise and national humiliation, Torrijos may have to abandon the treaty. Indeed, his country may give him no choice...
...blue caps emblazoned with the words AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. But the thousands of burly farmers, with strike buttons on their brightly colored windbreakers, were readily recognizable last week as they spilled into the Capitol Building with their wives to watch Congress vote on an emergency one-year farm bill to boost crop prices and increase farm loans. It was the climax of a protest begun in December by the farmers, who were caught in a painful squeeze between falling world prices for their crops and rising costs of production...
...executive rises and falls in line with his company's profits. Examples: Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell International Corp., got $636,000 last year, an increase of 27% on a 17% profit gain. Reginald H. Jones, chairman of General Electric Co., received $687,000, a boost of 11%, reflecting a 17% profit rise. Chiefs taking pay cuts included John J. Riccardo, chairman of Chrysler. With company profits down 61%, he received $427,000, a 38% reduction from the year before...
...grant is a "big boost" for the Center because it will create a substantial endowment and provide funds for post-doctoral fellowships. Abram Bergson, George F. Baker professor of Economics and director of the Russian Research Center, said yesterday...