The Yankees captured their 27th title and first since 2000 which certainly goosed ratings.
Cash for Clunkers, an unsustainable government gift to the auto industry, goosed third-quarter growth numbers.
Televised daily, the soaps dragged out their plots slowly, but goosed the audience with cliffhangers.
This brings in a trickle of revenue (goosed occasionally by a TV licensing fee).
These systems allow carriers to move data up to 1, 600 kilometers before the signals must be goosed up again.
Big firms are sitting on piles of cash and might be goosed into spending some by asset purchases.
Indeed, the news goosed Vivus stock slightly, but the measurable impact is not expected to be felt for months.
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Why are we taxpayers giving retired policemen 100% salary pensions, often goosed up with triple overtime pay in their final year?
Lance Armstrong goosed the usually anemic ratings for the Tour de France as he captured seven straight titles between 1999 and 2005.
In the 1990s workers' comp costs fell, thanks to deregulation, which goosed price competition among insurers, and the stock market, which helped insurance firms cover underwriting losses with investment income.
Mentioning it to one of the other performers in The Caves, I was told that a performer last year was constantly being "goosed" by a ghost, so it's obviously not unknown.
In March 2000 the liquidity-goosed Nasdaq shot through 5000.
This stuff has always occurred but now it's goosed and amplified and elevated into a mandatory part of the experience, requiring an attention span stretching well beyond the reasonable boundaries of the season.
With his partner, Carlos (Charlie) Skipsey, Anderson opened joints at resorts throughout the country, under a variety of names, including Carlos 'n Charlie's and El Shrimp Bucket, all of them fun-loving dining establishments goosed by pitchers of margaritas.
This business had a fat 33% operating margin (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), and its top line--goosed by immigrants sending money back home to their families--was increasing at a 14% annual clip.
Then there is the Atlas Cold Storage Income Fund (whose underlying firm is a warehouse operator generating most of its revenue in the U.S.), which suspended its third-quarter payout last month after admitting it had goosed prior profits by capitalizing some expenses as assets.
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