Word: boast
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...lightweights also boast three additional eights and a junior varsity four. Two of the eights are all novice boats. The third is made up of seven novices and one veteran oarswoman...
Besides familiarity with the region's terrain and people, the grizzled Katangese boast over a decade and a half of combat-tested savvy. They originally fought for the late Katangese separatist leader Moïshe Tshombe. After his defeat in 1963, they were forced into exile in Angola, then adopted by Portugal's secret police to fight Angolan liberation groups. Following Lisbon's 1974 revolution, which led to the dismantling of Portugal's African empire, the Katangese were virtually forced to side with Agos-tinho Neto's Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola...
Only weeks ago, crusty George Meany crowed at the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., that "the climate is good" for labor. The boast made sense: labor had spent $8.2 million to help elect a heavily Democratic Congress, and union votes had given Jimmy Carter a big lift toward the White House. Meany and his aides set down a list of ambitious legislative goals, then waited for the pro-labor Government to do its stuff (TIME, March...
...stunning upset, Mrs. Gandhi lost her own carefully nurtured constituency in Uttar Pradesh by 55,000 votes to Raj Narain, a socialist buffoon whom she had trounced by 112,000 votes in 1971. "India is Indira, and Indira is India," Congress Party President D.K. Barooah used to boast. He will say it no more. Defeated in an adjoining constituency by 76,000 votes was Sanjay, in his first try for elective office. Of 542 seats in the new Lok Sabha (Lower House), Mrs. Gandhi's Congress Party won only 153 (v. 355 in the last Parliament), while Desai...
...Carter's boast that he has tripled the number of women in top posts is shrugged off by Jane McMichael, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. Says she: "Three times nothing is still nothing." Women hold only 18% of the policymaking jobs in the Carter Administration-29 out of 154 posts-and that percentage is substantially affected by the Commerce Department, where Secretary Kreps has selected women for five of the 14 top-ranking jobs. Elsewhere, the record is much worse. HUD's Harris has included two women among the nine people...