Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest single boost was an amendment doubling the previously authorized $290 million in federal grants for construction of graduate and undergraduate facilities. As approved by Powell's committee after only 20 minutes of debate, the 1965 Higher Education Act would cost $624.5 million in its first year. Its main provisions are four separate five-year programs calling...
Doing their bit to boost the tension were the latest opinion polls, which had something for everyone. One private survey made for the C.D.U. showed that Erhard's party lead had shrunk from 48% to 45%, a bare 2% ahead of the Social Democrats. A second study, made by an equally respected polling organization, showed they still had 47% of the vote, enough for the solid victory Ludwig Erhard hopes...
...experts foresee the end of the six-year price plateau for the U.S. economy, predict that the continuing boom may drive up wholesale prices 3% or 4% in the next year, boost consumer prices 2½% to 3% . That is, however, a distinctly minority view. Most businessmen and economists, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve Bank expect no more than half that increase, which they feel is a small price to pay for continued prosperity. But they are still concerned and watching closely. Their strong hope is that the pace of wage and price hikes will...
...scandal and financial burden might have been the downfall of a lesser company, but Amexco has proved that it can thrive despite adversity. Stung into greater efforts by the salad-oil scandal, it used imaginative promotion to boost the volume of its traveler's checks to about $2.5 billion last year, 16% higher than in 1963. Careful weeding of unreliable credit card holders and such innovations as the "Sign & Fly" program, which enables air travelers to fly on credit, lifted the American Express credit card operation out of the red (it lost $10 million between...
Rapture is hardly the word for this penumbral play of love against loneliness. But whatever the name, the film will boost the artistic stock of English Director John Guillermin, whose feature films have covered such varied terrain as The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, Waltz of the Toreadors and Guns at Batasi. And it will clinch the reputation of France's 15-year-old Patricia Gozzi, whose first big role was in the warmly praised Sundays and Cybele (TIME, Dec. 7, 1962). The three years have deepened her mobile beauty and candid eyes, and have added...