Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warm Reception. Four days after his C. of C. appearance, the President planed down to New Orleans to make another speech, this time to boost his trade-expansion bill. The occasion was the dedication of a huge new $12.5 million wharf on the Mississippi River, a fitting symbol of international trade. In his talk, the President restated his essential argument for his bill: presidential authority to slash tariffs is required to keep the European Common Market open to U.S. exports. "In May of 1962," he said, "we stand at a great divide: we must trade or fade. We must either...
...that in line with productivity? HONESTUS: It added 10? an hour, or 2.5%-in line with the standard figure for yearly productivity gain. The settlement that Vice President Nixon helped to arrange in early 1960 after the long steel strike added about 40? an hour, but even that boost has been pretty well balanced by productivity gains...
Eliot aims to boost faculty research, hold down enrollment to get better students...
...newsletter from Americans for Democratic Action, of which Beer is national chairman, charged that the hearings are a device to boost the stock of Rep. John Rousselot (R-Cal.). Rousselot will reportedly have trouble in the November elections because of his outspoken membership in the John Birch Society...
...climb to altitude on a straight course under full power. Noise abatement often requires them to take off downwind, to climb too steeply, to make turns at minimum altitudes and air speeds. Cutting power for the sake of quietness reduces air speed also, just when a plane needs every boost it can get. As it is practiced today, says Edward Bechtold, a safety expert of the Airline Pilots Association, "noise abatement is like a married man going out with other women. If he does it long enough he's apt to get caught...