Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...additional Polaris subs (making a total of 29 authorized and under construction), quicker development of a boost in Polaris missile range from the current 1,200 miles to 2,500 miles...
...over again when his wife comes in. If the wife comes in first, many salesmen try to sell her on the car's color and upholstery, quoting her a price considerably above their rock-bottom offer. When the husband comes in later, they boost his ego by letting him force the price down, so he can show his mate that he is the sharp bargainer in the family...
...twelve planes around the clock for one year run to $65 million-the fuel for one B-52 alone runs to $7,000 per flight. SAC Chief Power has managed to get an additional budget of only $185 million. If he can get the money, Power would like to boost the alert to include at least 25% of his planes, which would cost $750 million a year above the $8 billion budget for all of SAC's operations...
...quickly than people in the countries affected by it." A proxy statement from the stockholder-harassed Chrysler Corp., which just en joyed its first profitable year since 1957, mentioned a raise for Chairman-President Lester Lum Colbert, whose compensation totaled $260,650. Colbert's compact-era 1960 salary boost...
Their first trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...