Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stern critic of the coverage of the Hanafi siege was George Gerbner, dean of Philadelphia's Annenberg School of Communications. Charging that the coverage was "an act of entertainment" that served primarily to boost ratings or sales of papers rather than further the public interest, he also noted that "the media cooperated with the terrorists and in so doing made their gesture more effective. It became a media event. Cameramen began covering other cameramen covering the story...
...effort to boost her team's sagging fortunes, Carole Kleinfelder, in the spirit of Bob Cousy, turned player-coach and directed her team both on and off the floor. Laurie Frizzell, Kleinfelder's assistant coach, also suited up for the contest, the former Northeastern forward's play sparking the women through the middle of the first half...
...does wonders with many others. His performance searches out the Hemingway man beneath the macho mask-harsh but affectionate, exacting but forgiving, an aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...
...Young (D-Ga.) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in December, many observers applauded the appointment--for the wrong reasons. On the domestic front, it was felt that a black of Young's intelligence, personal assurance and civil rights credentials filling a high-profile, cabinet-level post would boost American interest in and identification with the New Administration's initiatives, particularly in foreign affairs. Internationally, they hoped, Young would serve as a symbolic bridge between the Carter administration and the Third World, particularly Africa...
This new orthodoxy has driven away only "five or six" ministers, Wallace claims, and has helped boost membership from 40,000 to 70,000 since his father died. It has paid off in other ways. Arab nations are providing substantial aid, including $16 million for a South Side Chicago mosque. The money comes at a strategic time. Last week the once-secretive organization for the first time released a balance sheet for Chicago headquarters; it shows a consolidated debt of $6.5 million, part of it from the group's private empire of small businesses. For years, complains Wallace, "money...