The urge to boost revenues and squeeze the budget deficit has made Greece's taxmen and the special tax-police much more aggressive.
Fares have held steady for months because of lower fuel prices, and competition should squelch any urge to boost ticket prices after the carriers combine, analysts said.
Though the Americans still urged Europe and Japan to boost domestic-led economic growth, their carping was less insistent.
It urged producers to boost output to "help avoid the negative global economic consequences which a further sharp market tightening could cause".
There was the almost certainly apocryphal — but nevertheless widely believed — story that during the Second World War the United States urged Sinaloa to boost its (illegal) production of opium in order to meet the medical needs of G.I.s wounded in combat.
He urged banks to boost their balance sheets, by reinvesting profits, paying out less in bonuses, and raising new cash in the financial markets, before emergency support runs out.
The report examined the defence expenditure of 14 members of the alliance to see whether they were living up to recent promises made at the Nato summit in south Wales when David Cameron urged members to boost their defence spending.
Boti reminisced about water he and his friends were urged to drink as boys to boost virility (a sort of Viagra Falls?).
Britain's use of fossil fuels will come under further scrutiny this week when a government-commissioned study will urge ministers to boost North Sea oil and gas production by forcing companies to share infrastructure.
The International Monetary Fund is urging George Osborne to boost spending on Britain's infrastructure despite revising upwards its forecast for UK growth by more than for any other developed country.
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