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Somalia and Rwanda gave a hefty boost to the chaos theories that used to haunt western views of Africa: the conviction that poverty, population pressure and social disintegration would turn the continent into a wilderness.Nonetheless, such prophecies of doom are now giving way to more hopeful appraisals of Africa's future.

A Senate spending panel today gave a hefty boost to U.S. researchers working in the physical sciences, space, and oceanography.

Opinion polls show strong support for the measure in California, which would give a hefty boost to similar campaigns in other states and to end the federal prohibition by legalizing recreational marijuana along the entire US west coast.

The E.U. is preparing to announce that it will contribute a hefty boost to the $11 million annual budget of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).

"Long March-7's successful maiden flight will greatly lift up China's comprehensive space capacity, and give the country a hefty boost in building itself into a space power," he said.

Rumours of the plan, which leaked last night, had given Asian markets a hefty boost overnight and brought further relief to the City following the FTSE 100's historic 8.26% leap yesterday.

That should swiftly deliver a hefty boost to the sagging economy from net trade.

But Mr Gensler is likely to get a hefty boost to his budget and staff.

Surf guitar, such Link Wray and Dick Dale, provided a hefty boost to the rock instrumental.

Under President Bush's proposed federal budget announced on Monday, research in the physical sciences would receive a hefty boost.

The first two agencies are part of the president's American Competitiveness Initiative, which calls for a hefty boost in research.