Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foolhardy enough to rush to reporters and boast of how he turned the President around on any specific issue...
...undergraduate programs. But suddenly, thanks to a predicted decrease in the number of 18-to 22-year-olds and growing financial deficits, colleges have realized that extension programs are lucrative and are madly recruiting the older, more serious-and often more affluent-student. Weekend colleges are blossoming. Night schools boast better faculty. Liberal arts colleges, where adults were once treated as gray-haired pariahs, are encouraging older people to participate with regular undergraduates in daytime classes...
Supporters of the bill also boast of Harris polls which indicate 52 per cent of the public supports a federal consumer advocacy agency. Another poll reported that when Americans were asked to "describe the ethics of people running various institutions", of the 11 institutions listed, "consumer action groups" ranked first and "major corporations" ranked tenth...
Shinnecock Hills was also the trendsetter for the social exclusiveness that became characteristic of prominent clubs. It was the first course to boast a clubhouse, which ever since have become accepted as de rigeur. Moreover, the clubhouse was designed by Stanford White, the legendary architect of the period. By the turn of the century, Shinnecock had become the first American golf club to be incorporated and have a waiting list...
...Gerald R. Ford, the institute's only "distinguished fellow." The former President, who maintains an office at the institute and draws $40,000 a year from A.E.I., will participate in seminars or conferences at ten colleges and universities this fall under A.E.I. auspices. For further prestige, A.E.I. can boast the consulting services of Academic Adviser Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Senior Fellows Irving Kristol, Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at N.Y.U., and Ben Wallenberg, the conservative Democratic election analyst...