When Asia experienced a similar demographic revolution three decades ago, it gave a powerful boost to economic growth.
The asset purchases are aimed at encouraging lending by lowering interest rates, particularly for mortgages; more refinancings and home sales would be a powerful boost to the economy.
That mythology, with a powerful boost from the Internet, which magically transforms rumors into facts, has developed ramifications so baroque that it might today be called a minor branch of Brazilian literature.
The fast growing house-church communities often disapprove of ancestor worship, thus attracting women who feel fettered by clan strictures.The parlous state of China's health-care system has also given a powerful boost to religion.
The presence of a victorious American Army in Iraq would then serve as a powerful boost to moderate elements in neighboring Iran, hastening that critical country's evolution away from the mullahs and toward a more moderate course.
Opponents hope that the appearance of Ronnie White, who is scheduled to testify on Thursday, will provide a powerful boost to their assertion that Mr. Ashcroft is insensitive to race.
Quickly determining the Higgs's existence and properties would give a powerful boost to that project, he said, as well as guiding physicists who are groping for a more encompassing theory of the cosmos than they have now.
But the theory received a powerful boost last month when British judges ruled that General Augusto Pinochet, a former Chilean dictator, could be tried in Britain or extradited to Spain, from where a judge had requested his arrest in London, for crimes committed by his regime.
Indeed, Colette Neuville, who heads a French association of small shareholders and has campaigned on their behalf for years, for the most part fruitlessly, declared herself as shocked as she was delighted.The ruling appeared to give a powerful boost to better corporate governance in France.
Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
