Word: boosts
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Omega-minus particles will never be made into rocket fuel or nuclear weapons. Their life (10 -10 sec., as predicted) is too short. But their discovery by a guiding theory has given an enormous boost to physics. Now that the eightfold way has been checked by this striking success, it can be used as a trusty tool in the search for more discoveries...
Unpatriotic Boosts. On the surface, Europe's acute labor shortage hands unions a powerful lever to force management to give ground on wages. European governments hope that labor leaders will consider the overall interests of their national economies and hold demands within limits. German workers, haunted by memories of the worthless inflated marks of the 1920s, already show remarkable restraint, even though they are in one of the tightest of labor markets. The French government is having some success in its campaign to make any wage boost seem unpatriotic. In Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, however, union leaders appear...
Grey Eminence. Agriculture Minister Ivan Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities...
...orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about the future of the Concorde. The British government has already begun to grouse about its development costs, and BOAC and Air France have been worried that the Concorde may not be efficient enough to compete with the U.S. supersonics...
...worker, Daley has spent his life on the public payroll and in the "organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting machinery, From this position, he could and did build a machine. By 1955 he was strong enough to buck Arvey and become chairman of the country organization...