Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't carry a company like the RSC (providing only three million pounds in a ten to 12 million pound operation), but it helps it o be more solvent and to reach more people with more projects: "In short, here is a classic case of state support being the springboard for private enterprise, which returns its goods directly into the public domain and in the process trains and employs a variety of highly skilled people whose work can and does fertilise other allied enterprises all about the place...
...years of Viet Nam were beginning to fire up domestic inflation. In 1957, 13,739 firms went bust. In 1967, near the zenith of the go-go years, 12,364 companies went under. The highest number of failures registered during the entire period, 17,075, came in 1961, the springboard year of the boom. By comparison, business failures in 1981 now seem set to rise no higher than 17,000 or so for the year as a whole...
Using the controversial preliminary report on Harvard admissions commissioned by President Bok as a springboard, more than 200 students rallied in the Yard Tuesday, unexpectedly marching through University Hall and gathering in front of Massachusetts Hall, where they heard protest leaders threaten to occupy the building unless Bok agrees soon to a set of eight demands...
...Three weeks ago it dawned on me that I might be able to run in a meet--though not necessarily well. I felt responsible to the team as captain and I thought that if I were to run, it would be a springboard for motivation...
...walks down Arthur Avenue, pointing to it as an example of an "area of strength" in the South Bronx. It is the commercial heart of a small Italian community called Belmont in the northern part of the South Bronx, with a residential vibrancy that will make it a springboard for the area's revitalization...