Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge. And thanks to its rich endowment of rubber and tin, the country's economy prospered. Last year Malaya topped all other nations in the production of both items (709,000 tons of rubber, 50,000 tons of tin), sent enough abroad, mostly to the U.S., to boost its foreign exchange reserves to a healthy $430 million. More than 95% of Malaya's children attend primary school, 100,000 automobiles ply a network of well-surfaced new roads, and Malaya's one airline (Malayan Airways Ltd.) has a perfect safety record after 14 years of operation...
Until the pollsters produced some fresh straw-vote results this week, no one would know how much of a boost the Berlin crisis had actually given Willy Brandt. No one may really know until the electorate gets down to marking the ballots on Sept. 17. But in the wake of the Communists' blow, there was a slight-and only slight-question of Konrad Adenauer's continued dominance...
...seemed well. Separating smoothly from its first stage, the second-stage rocket Agena, with the Ranger still attached, swung into a 100-mile-high parking orbit, coasted with its engine dead. Fourteen minutes after launch, the Agena's engine reignited on schedule to boost its Ranger payload on the long route into space. Then something went wrong. Instead of burning for the scheduled 90 seconds, which would have increased Ranger's speed from 17,400 m.p.h. to the necessary 23,800 m.p.h., Agena cut out too soon. Disconnected below maximum velocity, Ranger coasted up to a mere...
Snake Slaughter. Though nostrums and quack cures have always been around, they got their big boost in the U.S., says Carson, from the Civil War. The men under arms learned to seek relief in an assortment of pain-killing potions, most of which contained opiates, alcohol or both. Such strong ingredients could kill pain, and that touch of veracity built credibility for a thousand other claims...
Besides, some of the upward pressures that an expanding economy generally exerts on interest rates are missing this year. So far, the Fed has not had to boost borrowing rates to head off inflation, because prices have remained fairly stable throughout the recovery. President Kennedy is reluctant to take any counter-inflationary step that might slow recovery. so long as 6.9% of the work force remains unemployed. For the moment, too, with the U.S. balance of payments in relatively good shape and the pressure on U.S. gold reserves consequently diminished, the Administration feels no great need to juggle interest rates...