(1) Contrary to the triumphal boosterism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brechin offers imagery of despair with the city as maelstrom.(2) That's carrying local boosterism a bit far, eh?(3) It was the kind of boosterism that encouraged people to buy into the idea.(4) But this essay is not meant as a piece of boosterism for economic theory.(5) I benefited from that, and I understand that there's a place for some hometown boosterism , but at the same time it's patronizing.(6) Meanwhile, the fleet footed and well connected have profited from surging exports, a bubbly urban real estate market and, occasionally, government boosterism .(7) Many industry watchers were dumbfounded at the overt bias and political boosterism .(8) First of all, I apologize for any kind of home town boosterism .(9) Local leaders continued their efforts at boosterism as the turn of the century approached.(10) Then there are more titles of books, more facts, more things that come to mind (which apparently is a lot) - all in the interests of historical boosterism .(11) He was tinged with western boosterism , appreciated the out-of doors, and displayed bursts of powerful ambition.(12) But community boosterism was the primary factor for the growth of most professional football teams.(13) Is corporate boosterism just a reflex for celebrities, or are they paid to say these things?(14) By the 1980s Yellowstone's snowmobile boosterism would come to haunt park managers.(15) Science is not immune from error, folly, or self-serving boosterism .(16) Younger editors, however, were also more likely to support boosterism , a practice that has tarnished the image of sports departments.