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...helped give him a jump-start,” Fitzpatrick says of his counseling, adding that he has been amazed with how quickly Mazza has improved over the course of the season...
...attempt to jump-start the College’s party scene, the Undergraduate Council will begin funding as many as 12 undergraduate room parties each weekend for the rest of the fall semester...
...said that their planned visit this weekend was meant to jump-start more discussions of the bells’ future...
...optimism. A spokesman said that "the ranges that any reasonable person is considering include zero [imports] by 2000." By that year, however, imports were at their highest level ever, and domestic production had declined to levels not seen since 1950. Now President Bush has his own plan to jump-start oil production. He wants to begin drilling in a portion of the 1.5 million-acre arctic coastal-plain area of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which covers a total of 19 million acres. According to the White House, the President "believes that opening this small area to environmentally responsible...
...stop plunging vast swathes of Africa further into poverty and underdevelopment. While it is wishful thinking that the U.S. will follow Europe’s lead at the Doha trade talks this September, further subsidy reforms within the EU could have a significant enough impact to jump-start African agriculture and provide a hope for a desperate continent...