At the same time, the Bush administration has recently begun working on a program to boost U.S. competitiveness globally.
The move, which becomes official in 2014, should provide a big boost to the program in recruiting and season ticket sales.
On Wednesday, the Bank of England and the Treasury extended until January 2015 a program to boost lending and help the economy.
"It becomes a challenge because we live in Peter Pan houses, designed for people who never grow old, " said Susan Bosak, a social scientist who is overseeing a program to boost intergenerational engagement in Tulsa, Okla.
Financial firms, especially those that have balance sheets larded with toxic assets, may get a boost tomorrow after a government official said late Wednesday that a Treasury program will add liquidity to the market for distressed securities.
NASA's Kepler space telescope hasn't exactly been a slouch when it comes to planet hunting, but that effort will soon be getting a considerable boost courtesy of a new mission selected by NASA as part of its Explorer program.
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There's also a slew of original content on the way headed by Arrested Development and House of Cards, and its OpenConnect ISP program has now gotten a boost from high bitrate 1080p video and even 3D.
For example, our local co-working space, The Grove, received assistance through Project Storefronts, a city economic development program to help boost the vitality of the Ninth Square neighborhood.
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The Apollo program was a sort of collective ego boost for Americans, but again I would rank it as a sign of maturity that we no longer have need for hundred billion dollar self-esteem enhancements.
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In addition, the government is expected to pay several investment management firms to match private-sector money and expand a new Treasury-Federal Reserve program designed to boost consumer lending.
The awkwardly named program has the potential to be a badly needed boost in revenues for Yahoo, which have been stagnant for a long time.
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What that means then is, is that among the options that are available to us is, for example, the payroll tax cut, which might not be exactly the kind of program that I would design in order to boost employment but does make a difference because it puts money in the pockets of people who are then spending it at businesses, large and small.
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Speaking at a news conference in February, President Vladimir Putin said the new program would boost the country's nuclear power capacity to provide 30 percent of the country's energy needs, up from its current 16 percent.
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