The sendups of Lionel's bad taste — guzzling Champagne out of a beer mug or reading a trashy newspaper in an elegant restaurant — are predictable and uninspired, and so are the descriptions of Threnody's attempts to manipulate the press, going on a morale-boosting mission to visit the troops in Afghanistan or trying to get Lionel to start a line of clothing.
Although plans called for Skylab to be used again with one of the first space shuttle missions boosting it to a higher orbit, increased solar activity caused its orbit to degrade faster than expected.
"These new measures will ensure that E.D.C. focuses on its mission of boosting employment.
"From the very beginning we said our mission was boosting turnout".
He has now given the twins and their mission of boosting home ownership a new lease of life.
As with community colleges around the country, C.C.S.F., which has 100,000 students, has adopted a role well outside its mission of boosting students into four-year colleges.
This mission includes boosting the supply of affordable housing for Veterans and others in need.
Eighty years after its creation, the Ex-Im Bank's stated mission of boosting American jobs is questionable, at best.
Ex-Im offers four financial products -- direct loans, loan guarantees, working capital guarantees and export credit insurance -- in pursuit of its mission of boosting U.S. jobs through the financing of exports.
Using instruments from previous missions and salvaging the lander itself from the Surveyor mission boosted confidence, he says.
Last December, a rocket blew up (ScienceNOW, 13 December 2002), delaying the launch of two other science missions and boosting their costs by $90 million.
