Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversy by cutting its prime rate to the same level, Morgan's action is expected to be followed by most of the country's commercial banks. Their action, it is hoped, will accelerate the drop in home-mortgage interest rates and give homebuilding a boost. In another development that should have much the same effect, California's Bank of America, the nation's largest, announced an across the board reduction of interest charges on home-mortgage loans...
...This [the gift] will be a tremendous boost," Monro said last night. Pitts was less restrained in his enthusiasm. He said the $100,000 was "like sunshine to flowers, windows to a house...
...redrawing of district lines on hastening the total integration of the city's educational system. More important, the settlement between the School Committee and the State Board should deprive Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, who fought the State Board every step of the way, of a dramatic issue to boost her own political ambitions and those of similar fear-mongers...
...ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
...incurring official wrath, two Israeli editors were dealt even harsher punishment than Colonel Moranda. Last December, Shemuel Mohr and Maxim Ghilan decided to try a little political sensationalism to boost the circulation (10,000) of their sex-oriented magazine, Bui. Under the headline "Stinking International Affair," they wrote that Israeli government officials were hushing up facts about the kidnaping of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka in 1965. Not only were the French and Moroccan secret services involved in the plot, suggested Bui, but so was Israel...