Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private university in the West, is striving to change its Rose Bowl hue in favor of academic touchdowns. Un der way is a 25-year master plan priced at $106 million. The Ford money will help raise a new science building (particularly for physics), hire more faculty to help boost graduate-student enrollment. Said President Norman H. Top ping: "It will enable us to move forward much faster than we expected...
...publishers' position was that their last offer of $9.20 more a week -$4.25 the first year, $3.75 the second, plus $1.20 to defray the cost of an additional fourth week of paid vacation after 15 years-was already more than the papers could afford. Over two years, the boost would add some $10 million to the payrolls of the nine dailies-an increase that does not include the $8.50 package for which the Newspaper Guild settled in November. The cost must be met by papers that, lumped together, operate at a loss...
...went on, "is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budget surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits-a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy, or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future...
...King-Size Boost. Rupert, who started out as a university chemistry instructor, got into business out of a vague desire to do research into tobacco and to "manufacture something.'' In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate...
...which started the season slowly with a sloppily played loss to St. Nicholas Hockey Club, has been searching for an offensive combination to replace the high scoring group which graduated last June. The return of Gene Kinasewich, who led the team in scoring last season, has given a big boost to the team's hopes, and with Thursday's win it appears that Coach Coonie Wieland has discovered an offensive punch which will balance the team's defensive strength. The defense, led by All-American Dave Johnston, has been superlative all season, leaving goalie Godfrey Wood with a much easier...