Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pope & President. Then the protocol-shattering frankness of President Ayub's 50-minute talk to a joint session of Congress gave the program an unexpected boost. After spelling out Pakistan's groping toward democracy and its dependence on U.S. financial aid, Ayub threatened: "We are pressing against you today as friends. If we make good, I think you will in some fashion get [your money] back. If we do not make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really...
...each day, laying over at night in Tricolor-draped towns that paid up to $8,000 for the privilege. Reason: restaurants and shops can count on a 40% leap in business; hotels are booked months in advance. Nearly every newspaper in France has a 10% sales boost throughout the Tour...
...where there is "less crime, immorality and open sin than anywhere else in the northern part of the United States," he happily surprised Minneapolitans among 18,500 listeners at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. Unnoticed went some decidedly unparadisiacal facts: in the past month, their city was forced to boost taxes to fight a 30% increase in crime, heard itself berated by a convention of building managers for the most "open and blatant" prostitution they had seen...
...Congress delivered to President Kennedy his requested program of new social security benefits that will increase the minimum monthly payment from $33 to $40, allow a man to retire at 62 instead of 65 (but on proportionately smaller payments), and boost widows' shares of their husbands' benefits from...
...U.A.R.-to agree to put voluntary limits on their exports so as to avoid complete disruption of the already glutted world textile market. The scheme had twin purposes: 1) to divert some Asian textiles from U.S. to European markets, and 2) to give the underdeveloped nations an economic boost in the form of European trade rather than...