Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that embitters Panamanians. A Panamanian doctor earns $12,500 as head of the chest clinic at Gorgas Hospital in the Zone; his nearest American subordinate on the staff gets about $19,000. Nevertheless, the money Panamanians take home from the Zone gives the country's economy an important boost. In 1962, U.S. Zone operations poured more than $75 million into Panama, including $23 million in direct purchases and $33 million in wages...
Absolutely Not. The Washington Star interviewed Mikhail A. Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Capitol visitor. Although Lavrentyev does not smoke, he graciously tried to boost-or perhaps undermine?-the morale of tobacco addicts with an apposite Russian proverb. The heavy smoker, said Lavrentyev, will never be burglarized and will never grow old, "because he stays up all night coughing-and won't live long enough to enjoy...
...Litchfield raised hundreds of Alcoa products by 1? to 2? per Ib. to take advantage of a strengthening aluminum market. Competitors Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum quickly followed his lead-and then went one better by increasing basic aluminum prices by a penny, to 24? a Ib. Will the boost stick? That depends largely on whether Alcoa and Larry Litchfield decide to accept...
...taking lunch there. When the Press disagreed with the Cleveland Bar Association's candidate for the municipal bench, it asked its readers to write in the name of an unknown young lawyer whom the paper preferred. The young lawyer won. If the Press likes a politician, it can boost him into almost any office. Frank Lausche, a Democrat, rose from Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified...
...lonely for long. Friends, reporters, curiosity seekers and a few GPU undercover agents flocked to the island. Trotsky plunged into an enormous correspondence with Trotskyites, who formed devoted, quarrelsome little groups in just about every country in the West. Trotsky did his best to unite them and boost their morale. He was genuinely appalled by Stalin's mass slaughter of Russia's peasantry and said so. But he confused his followers by scrupulously refusing to call for Stalin's overthrow and by defending Stalin's incredibly Machiavellian foreign policy-even the invasion of Finland...