Samuel D. Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged from 48 to 74 percent last year.

Dunn, who was tied for the major league lead with 32 home runs, was expected to provide a significant boost to an offense that has struggled to score runs for most of the season.

A major contribution to the recent growth in the overall Bahamian economy is Kerzner International's Atlantis Resort and Casino, which took over the former Paradise Island Resort and has provided a much needed boost to the economy.

When the Soviet Union broke up in late 1991, a major boost to Cuba's economy was lost, leaving it essentially paralyzed because of the economy's narrow basis, focused on just a few products with just a few buyers.

Microsoft Windows received a major boost around this time when Aldus PageMaker appeared in a Windows version, having previously run only on Macintosh.

Although providing a major morale boost for the Ottomans, the operation failed to achieve its primary objective, as Kountouriotis refused to leave his post and pursue the Hamidiye.

The invention of the compact cassette in the 1960s, followed by Sony's Walkman, gave a major boost to the mass distribution of music recordings, and the invention of digital recording and the compact disc in 1983 brought massive improvements in ruggedness and quality.

Mach received a major boost in visibility when the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) announced they would be hosting future versions of OSF / 1 on Mach 2. 5, and were investigating Mach 3 as well.

Even though these policies provided a major boost to the economy, it was still heavily dependent on daimyos ' support.

Another major event in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century will give a major boost to development of geography and will take place in United States.

Improvements in one or more of these yield determinants, and a closure of the yield gap, can be a major boost to food supply and farmer incomes in the developing world.

The two major sources of evidence given to support this theory are that dopamine receptor D2 blocking drugs ( i. e., antipsychotics ) tend to reduce the intensity of psychotic symptoms, and that drugs which boost dopamine activity ( such as amphetamines and cocaine ) can trigger psychosis in some people ( see amphetamine psychosis ).

Furthermore, the signing of major international sports stars like Gabriel Batistuta have helped give Qatar an image boost.

The Roppongi area received a major economic boost in 2002 – 2003 when the Izumi Garden Tower and the Roppongi Hills high-rise complexes were completed.

The military of Somalia received a major boost in April 2009 when various international donors at a UN-sponsored conference pledged over $ 250 million to help improve security in the country.

A remarkable boost in the recent development of the country's transportation infrastructure was noticed after winning the right to host a major continental sport event the UEFA Euro 2012.

Construction with Argentina of the Salto Grande Dam across the Río Uruguay north of Salto was a major boost to the development of the northern litoral in the 1970s.

" The film gave another major boost to Edwards ' reputation as an important director.

Mattachine's membership grew slowly at first but received a major boost in February 1952 when founder Jennings was arrested in a Los Angeles park and charged with lewd behavior.

The daric was a major boost to international trade, trade goods such as textiles, carpets, tools and metal objects began to travel throughout Asia, Europe and Africa.

Several major projects are underway in the mining and oil and gas sectors that, if successful, will give a significant boost.

During the 1970s Crete became a major tourist destination for Greek and international tourists, something that gave a significant boost to the city's economy and affected the everyday life and the overall culture of the locals.

This was a major morale boost to the defenders.

In 1877 the railway line from Melbourne was completed with a railway station at Traralgon giving the town a major economic boost.

Lovering co-wrote one of the tape's songs, " Levitate Me " ( his only major writing contribution to any Pixies song ) and appeared on the cassette's front cover, jogging naked with his back turned to the camera.

The popularity of major commercial computing architectures have aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit size.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

After it was used against a major school on a national stage in this game, the forward pass rapidly gained popularity.

Initially dubbed Living Pictures Theatre, it gained much popularity and by the end of the next decade there were cinemas in almost every major town of Poland.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

Although fast food is gaining popularity and many major fast-food chains have opened all over Greece, the Greek people still rely primarily on the rich and extensive repertoire of Greek cuisine.

At the same time the rising popularity of Firefox, its status of the default browser in major distribution and the overwhelming number of its extensions led to decline of Galeon's user base.

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is another major attraction relating to the popularity of country music.

Bands that fused punk with light-hearted pop melodies, such as The Queers and Screeching Weasel, began appearing around the country, in turn influencing bands like Green Day and The Offspring, who brought pop punk wide popularity and major record sales.

All of the Indian states observe dry days on major religious festivals / occasions depending on the popularity of the festival in that region.

Nevertheless Bracks got through his first term without major mishaps, and his popularity undiminished.

Although fast food is gaining popularity and many major foreign fast food chains have opened all over Turkey, Turkish people still rely primarily on the rich and extensive dishes of the Turkish cuisine.

However, Venice's popularity as a major worldwide tourist destination has caused several problems, including the fact that the city can be very overcrowded at some points of the year.

The fall of General Gordon in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1885 was a major blow to Gladstone's popularity.

At the peak of their popularity, the band embarked on a major tour, but Partridge suffered a mental breakdown on stage during one of the first concerts of the tour in Paris on 18 March 1982.

Despite ZZ Top's popularity and success in the 1970s, it wasn't until the 1980s that they started winning major awards and honors.

Iran and Iraq were caught by major popularity of the once-obscure Shiite sect of Islam under the rule of the Safavid dynasty of warrior-mystics, providing grounds for a Persia independent of the majority-Sunni Muslim world.

Classic pop declined in popularity as rock and roll entered the mainstream and became a major force in American record sales.

* Due to the major success of broadband Internet connections, Voice over IP begins to gain popularity as a replacement for traditional telephone lines.

Most Egyptian deities were first worshipped by very local cults, and they retained those local centres of worship even as their popularity spread, so that most major cities and towns in Egypt were known as the home of a particular deity.

The popularity of the Hawaii Five-O format spawned various police dramas on all the major television networks.

Due to the overwhelming popularity of their first ever race, the club plans to organize more races in the near future over different seasons, and aims to make it a major tourist attraction throughout Donegal.

In the early 1990s, the arcades experienced a major resurgence with the 1991 release of Capcom's Street Fighter II, which popularized competitive fighting games and revived the arcade industry to a level of popularity not seen since the days of Pac-Man.

Amateur sumo clubs are gaining in popularity in the United States, with competitions regularly being held in major cities across the country.