Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marijuana was steadily becoming more popular. Contemporary newspapers frequently ran articles of purported instances where one marijuana cigarette had led previously respectable citizens to commit crimes of violence or had sent them into fits of insanity. The stories, of course, were told in lurid detail and did much to boost sales. These imaginative stories, combined with the mistaken belief that the drug was highly addictive, led to a series of laws which, while not banning medical uses outright, imposed severe taxes on such uses. As a result, prescription of the drug fell to insignificance...
...import prices rise, American companies can increase the price of domestically produced goods that compete against imports, without fear that foreigners will undersell them. Moreover, the dollar is the currency most often used in world oil transactions. Although OPEC has frozen the price of oil until June, it might boost prices then to make up for a continued slide in the value of the dollars that its member countries earn by selling oil. That would further fuel inflation...
...Kidneys," he chortled, indicating his left temple. "I just did it to impress you, Rich. You see, I hear that exposure in your column gave a real boost to the sagging careers of my good friends Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Don Rickles--ya big dummy, ha, ha--and Rose Marie, and I just thought I'd show you some of my best stuff, in a milieu which hardly lent itself to spontaneous creative expression. Surely, if I throw in the rights to that neutron-bomb joke, we can arrange a little something for the column next week? Besides...
...years he toiled in small parts until foreign films gave him the boost he needed. Rider on the Rain, Once upon a Time in the West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé sacre monstre, as the French took to calling him. "I can't hang around a mantelpiece in a tuxedo with a cocktail speaking Noel Coward lines," he says. "When I was doing character parts, they were so far from me that it was always kind of ridiculous. I never really...
...London only this week, but the force is already there. Discothèques have been playing the music for months, and London papers don't look complete these days without a Star Wars cartoon, joke or picture. One daily, the Evening News, is even running a picture-studded serialization to boost circulation. The two giant theaters where the movie will play have already racked up $320,000 in advance ticket sales?more than three times the previous record. Said a theater spokesman: "It's easier to get knightedm than buy Star Wars tickets." "I've been in this business...