Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although University-owned property is legally tax-exempt, the group asserts that Harvard should boost its payment to compensate for the city services on which it draws...
This week, the group opened a whole new line of attack. With the aid of Boston City Council President Joseph M. Tierney, Fair Share put a resolution on the council's agenda asking Harvard to boost its payment to the level the citizens' group has suggested...
...oilmen, insist that they need increased incentives to boost their exploration activities. The oil industry contends it already spends 30% to 35% of its after-tax profits on exploration. But because all the easy-to-reach oilfields have been discovered, the drillers must now sink deeper and more expensive wells in more inhospitable regions, like Alaska's North Slope or the U.S. outer continental shelf. Since 1973 oil companies have increased the number of wells drilled by a dramatic 63.4% in the U.S. alone, but even at that, new finds have been disappointing, and proven reserves continue to decline...
...Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland came to address the group, some farmers greeted him with boos and catcalls. The farmers told Bergland they were supplying food for a nation that either did not understand their problems or did not give a hoot about them. They demanded that the Federal Government boost price supports to 100% parity, a figure based on the prices that farmers received in the relatively prosperous period from 1910 to 1914. Calculated in today's terms, such price supports would boost wheat to a whopping $5 per bu., a figure that would outrage consumers and spur inflation...
...boost to his ego when he stepped onto Baker Field and botched the first extra-point of the season against Columbia. "I was more worried about missing it than just kicking it straight through," he now says...