Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amiss when he told Breuning about his difficulty in getting two nurses to agree more than 80% of the time on the severity of mentally ill patients' symptoms. "What's wrong with you?" Sprague recalls one of Bruening's co-workers saying. "We get 100% agreement." That idle boast of scientific exactitude -- a virtual impossibility -- persuaded Sprague to look back through his colleague's research and then to contact the NIMH, which had funded both Breuning's and Sprague's work...
...Britain, an "economically and socially disabled" country afflicted with Dickensian misery. Two hours later, at Conservative Party headquarters near Westminster Abbey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the helm for the past eight years, evoked a very different nation, one with "revived spirit and restored reputation," a land that could boast of being Western Europe's "fastest-growing economy." The previous day, Britain's third political force, the Social Democratic-Liberal Party Alliance, had outlined a more subdued picture, acknowledging Thatcher's economic achievements but judging their social and human costs to be intolerable. Their program, said S.D.P. Leader David Owen...
...comparison, basketball's only $2 million men are Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Neither the NFL nor the NHL can boast any yearly salaries higher than $2 million...
Those who have come back with cash are spending it freely. Gossipmongers say that the local bank has recently changed as much as $40,000 to pesos in a single two-hour period. One beneficiary of the windfall is the telephone company. Residents boast that they make the highest per capita number of international phone calls in Mexico. Almost all are to the U.S. There has been a shift in culinary habits as well. Rafael Tema Chavez, who runs the Licha restaurant when he is not at his second job as principal of the town's grade school, has recently...
...Secretary of State and Iran hostage negotiator), who helped strike a deal in 1984 that gave Stanford control of the library. But the project continued to spark controversy. Its architect disparaged Stanford's buildings, and the chairman of the library foundation declared that the library would allow Stanford to "boast" of the "Reagan connection." Students and local residents protested the proposal, and the faculty senate sought to have the library's size reduced...