Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between their graduates and those of less advanced schools grows. Sophomores, too, may come into lower-level Gen Ed courses with usually good preparation in their freshman courses. To confine well-prepared students to lower-level Gen Ed courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards of these courses would be to deny the less-well-prepared the chance to come to Harvard. (We hope that the committee on General Education will eventually recognize this by making AP credit sufficient preparation for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
Like many another rising foreign dignitary, Chiang came to Washington at least partly to boost his international stock and to make himself more visible; his father, after all, is now 77. Invited by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Chiang and his entourage were greeted by an honor guard and a 19-gun salute. Then the lean, bareheaded American and the short, stocky Chinese with the Homburg disappeared for a series of conferences. Just before leaving Taipei, Chiang had declared that "a final and decisive war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington...
Since 1909 almost a score of bills has been introduced to establish a litfle White House for the veep, but all have died. Now the movement has been given a boost by L.B.J., who knows the problem from firsthand experience. Naturally, everyone has his own idea of what kind of house the Humphreys need. Senator George Smathers has introduced a bill that would make a vice-presidential residence out of Admiral's House, a 14-room mansion just off Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, now assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations. Another bill, by Democrat Mike Monroney...
...education, engineering, construction, public and other services. Even in the unlikely event that so many workers could be peace fully persuaded to shift jobs, the planners foresee a manpower shortage of 200,000 workers. To overcome that, they ask tradition-bound labor and industry to team up to boost the country's growth in output per man from its present 3% to 3.4% a year...
Repeating a Formula. Now that the News-Call has disappeared, the two remaining San Francisco papers intend to boost their ad rates as much...