Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nchez proposes a public corporation to raise investment capital at home. He aims to check inflationary land speculation, carry on large-scale road-construction projects, build new schools and hospitals, double teacher training, reform the fragmented housing program and-to help pay for it all-boost taxes. The only conspicuous initiative absent from his 85 points is an attempt to start a meaningful birth-control campaign, the one sure solution to the island's spiraling population...
...economic plan aimed at wooing voters back into the Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions, a 2.12% boost in France's minimum wage and subsidies for slum clearance and agricultural development...
...million Americans who suffer from coronary artery disease, fewer than 10 million have their problem neatly confined to a plug of fatty or chalky material in a single artery -what doctors call "segmental disease." The majority have a diffuse disease involving several artery branches, vastly complicating all efforts to boost blood flow to the oxygen-starved heart muscle. Because there is as yet no proof that medical treatment with diet, drugs, exercise and control of weight and blood pressure does much good, Santa Monica's Dr. James A. Mc-Eachen told the American College of Cardiology, countless victims...
...sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last week...
Kent Parrot drove home three goals in the first six minutes of the third period to boost the Harvard hockey team to its second victory of the year over Dartmouth...