Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formation of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) gave collegiate track the biggest boost it would ever get--it held its first meet that year at Saratoga, New York, offering a huge silver cup as a trophy to the team winning the most IC4A titles between then...
...personally. Confidence and pride just flow out of him, and into us. He molds a real esprit de corps. He puts on terrific pressure during practice, but that makes the games all the easier. And you always know that, when you make a mistake, he'll be there to boost you up and tell you immediately how to correct it. He's the greatest coach I've ever had or seen...
...hockey is his first sport, and Gurry is representative of the sparkling sophomore unit--Jack Turco, Terry Flaman, Ron Mark and George McManama--which can boost Harvard higher in the ECAC during the next two years...
...Boost for Mumbo. Operation Breadbasket grew from successful Negro boycotts in Philadelphia in the early 1960s and spread to Atlanta, where King's men have claimed 5,000 new jobs for Negroes in the past six years. Currently, Jackson has plans to deploy his pickets in several Southern cities. "Our tactics," he insists, "are not ones of terror. Our biggest concern is to develop a relationship so that the company has a respect for the consumer and the consumer will have respect for the company. As buying power among Negroes increases, they will be able to spend more money...
...Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called it in a Senate speech last fall. In his budget for the fiscal year starting next July, President Johnson has already trimmed his request for SST funds to $223 million, an $80.6 million increase from fiscal 1968 but only half of the boost that the Administration proposed last summer. Slowing development further would mollify congressional economizers by permitting additional cuts...