Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's win came after more than four hours of high-pressure tennis, and give the unbeaten varsity a big boost toward the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League championship...
...years. Treasury officials estimate that the offer, if translated into law, would involve an annual loss of $1.7 billion in Government revenue. At the same time, the tax credit could prove to be a sharp-pointed spur to the economy: it is designed to provide a $5 billion boost in gross national product during the first year-and to create 500,000 new jobs...
...major loss by batting down his bill by a single vote and passing a Republican measure that would lift the wage floor from $1 to $1.15 and extend coverage to 1,400,000 additional workers, all of them engaged in interstate commerce. Kennedy wanted much more: a two-stage boost to $1.25 by mid-1963, with coverage for 4,100,000 more workers, mostly in the retail trades...
...House passed, 399 to 14, the Administration's social security bill to 1) boost minimum monthly benefits from $33 to $40, and 2) permit men to retire and collect 80% of their usual benefits at 62 instead of 65, as women are already allowed to do. If the Senate, as expected, approves, the bill will boost social security benefit payments by $750 million in its first year of operation, raise social security taxes for employees and employers from the present 3% each on the first $4,800 of income to 3⅛% next year...
...cork-stuffed orthopedic boots, looking so grotesque that, he recalls, classmates dubbed him "the ape man.' Then a friend helped him get aluminum legs. Overnight he "grew" from 3 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 8 in., became imbued with a fervor to give the same sort of boost to other handicapped...