To the contrary, a couple of years ago, Mrs. Merkel boosted the idea of a closer, more integrated Atlantic economic zone.
The Washington Post editorial page, for instance, has been boosting the idea of a NATO air war in Syria for a while now.
"That is complemented by the fact that Avis is talking about raising the bid for Dollar," Mr. Kalivas said, "and providing competition for Hertz, which is kind of boosting the idea that the market has some value".
After an active campaign to persuade publishers to use their platform more, Facebook saw engagement numbers drop and became concerned that news was "flooding" its users' timelines; and therefore it boosted the idea that "friends and family" links and recommendations would now be the central organising principle for the platform.
Several sessions at GE Global Research Munich offered a chance to compare different approaches and observe how to boost the idea sparking process, even in situations where the facilitator is not a subject matter expert or the inventive team has little or no background in TRIZ.
In 2008, Formula Zero – a race between hydrogen-powered cars built by six competing universities – tried to show that sustainable energy needn't be po-faced, and while the zero-emissions race is no longer going, it boosted the idea of a cleaner, greener brand of motorsports.
Many in the crowd waved golden flags emblazoned with a crown, meant to boost the idea popular among some Chabad-Lebavitch that the deceased Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson was likely the Messiah and his return from the dead is imminent.
Since 2014, Suleimani has used increasingly frequent appearances at Middle East battlegrounds to boost the idea that Iran — not the U.S. or its traditional partners, such as Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia — is the most important power in the region.
Now, the first genome-wide study of ancient DNA from prehistoric Polynesians has boosted the first idea: that these ancient mariners were East Asians who swept out into the Pacific.
"There's absolutely no evidence to support the idea that sacking people boosts the economy," Blanchflower argues.
