Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wouldn't Know." With his own Republican Party badly split, Romney has vitally needed Democratic votes. But the Democrats understandably were not eager to help Romney make a record that might boost him toward the White House. And they still had sad memories of how G.O.P. legislators had treated Romney's Democratic predecessors. Said a Democratic representative: "We needed Republican votes to pass Mennen Williams' and John Swainson's fiscal reform programs, but they were never forthcoming. George Romney was on the hook this time. Why should we have gotten...
...Boost for Indira. Another subject they thought about, one that has almost become a national obsession, is the successor to Jawaharlal Nehru, 74. India today is still smarting from the savage beating it took at the hands of Red China last fall, the economy is faltering under bureaucratic controls, and the faction-riven government is flawed with corruption. Restive politicians say bluntly that all their problems cannot be solved by the stooped, careworn Prime Minister and the elderly, out-of-touch Congress Party leadership...
...raising the so-called margin requirements from 50% to 70%-meaning that to pick up $1,000 worth of listed stock, an investor will have to put down at least $700. The Fed's seven governors, who often split on other matters, voted unanimously for the "precautionary" boost. But they passed the word around that they plan no further movement of margins for quite a time...
...work force. If the productivity spurt continues, factory production will double in the next 20 years without creating any new jobs. Some U.S. economic policymakers have characteristically begun to argue that the job of making jobs will require not only a cut in taxes but a boost in Government spending as well...
...hope of attracting a few strays, newspapers all over the neighborhood boosted their press runs. The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger rolled an extra 50,000 Sunday copies and sold 20,000. Hearst's evening Manhattan paper, the Journal-American, claimed a gain of 75,000 daily. The New York Times got a 25,000 boost both daily and Sunday. But Vice President Ivan Veit said that the Times's serialization of the Eisenhower memoirs probably accounted for most of that. New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer reported a modest circulation rise, but decided not to give...