Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Part Boost. The fact is that the Senate-approved civil rights bill is a moderate device that draws new safeguards around Southern Negroes, and tries to move them toward equality by way of the ballot box. In its six parts, the bill...
...what happens when the plan ends next year? To match Rockefeller's annual $100,000 means another 26% tax boost, and last week Morrilton was trying to decide whether to hold its gains. In the Rockefeller era, the 2,000-student district has closed rural schools, upgraded graduation requirements, acquired the latest science equipment. It has hired new teachers and the only school psychologist in Arkansas. It has given Negro students (15%) precisely equal, if separate schools, and academic achievements have been doubled...
...trouble is that mounting civic pride has also stirred Morrilton to shell out more cash for new churches, sewers and an industrial-development fund, leaving little surplus for schools. Should the town not boost school taxes, it will have to drop the psychologist, art instruction, adult education and numerous other "frills." Last week some citizens seemed inclined to do just that. "Our town is too small for big, spectacular things," said one housewife. But other citizens were ready to pay at least a little more in taxes, retain some of the frills. Whatever the decision, Morrilton will never forget...
...Oriana, the Canberra will give P. & O. a commanding lead in Pacific passenger travel. Since it first sailed in these waters in 1954, P. & 0. has undercut the luxury-minded Matson and American President lines by emphasizing low-cost tourist-class rates; next year alone, the company will boost its berth facilities for Pacific travel...
...limb or one side of the body may be affected), it can nevertheless be built up by exercising healthy muscles near by, or the corresponding set on the opposite side. Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in the unexercised right flexor and 50% in the right extensor...