Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant timing and tactics, Richard Nixon had used the meeting with Rockefeller to position himself on the side of new departures for the 19605, broadening his potential appeal to independent voters, without losing the political value of identification with the Eisenhower Administration record?a record that got a considerable boost last week from the announcement of a billion-dollar budget surplus and the successful shot of the new Polaris missile from a submerged submarine (see Defense). Yet by easing the G.O.P. platform in the directions that Nelson Rockefeller had urged, Nixon largely canceled out the political appeal of the Democratic...
...made Kennedy's nomination inevitable days before it actually was." Earl Mazo, author (Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait) and national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, agreed: "Probably he'd have made it anyway, but the press gave him a big psychological boost by presenting his claims so affirmatively...
...absence of sweating. Treatment is drastic, and the physician must not leave it to the nurses. Most effective is to put the patient in an ice bath until the rectal temperature drops to 101°. If shock sets in, the patient will need intravenous fluids, plasma and drugs to boost the blood pressure. Mortality ranges from...
...point has been reached and an upturn in production lies ahead. At week's end the Commerce Department reported that exports of steel rose to 320,0000 tons in May, exceeding steel imports for the first time in 18 months. Steel imports, which got their big boost during the steel strike scare, fell to 272,000 tons, a figure that Big Steel Chairman Roger Blough describes as "still very bothersome," though it is only about 3% of U.S. steel...
...never." Prosperous French Automaker Peugeot, whose parts plant is near the Swiss border, has traditionally relied on local farmers for workers. But this year, in full production and squeezed by a labor-tight France and a labor-short Switzerland, Peugeot had to grant a 5% wage boost and a bonus besides. In Copenhagen, when management gave in to a wildcat strike of women workers at the Tuborg and Carlsberg breweries, it was fined $15,000 (the maximum) by the Danish employers' association. The pressure to raise European wages is lessening the big gap between U.S. and foreign pay, making...