Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reputation of the U.S. as a "safe haven" for investments that will not be ravaged by inflation or undercut by leftist politicians certainly has been a factor in the dollar's rise, but most economists outside the Administration give far greater weight to an influence that is nothing to boast about: $200 billion budget deficits...
Wonder no more. Leverett wins hands down, with eight of the starters calling it home. In second place is Kirkland with four starters, followed by Eliot and North with two each. Dudley, Dunster, Quincy, Cabot and Winthrop each boast one starter...
...Swedish model has survived. We have won a battle for the society of well-being against the neoliberal right!" So said a relieved Olof Palme, 58, after winning a fourth term last week as Sweden's Prime Minister. But the veteran Social Democratic Party leader could hardly boast of a triumph at the polls. His center-left party, which stands squarely for the welfare state, actually lost seven of its 166 seats in the 349-member Riksdag (parliament), as its share of the popular vote fell from 45.6% in 1982 to 44.9%. Thus Palme will have to rely increasingly...
...Maryland working girl eventually gets a leash around Macon, who wants his wife back but breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes for a motorcycle that could pull a plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes...
Then once you came to Norfolk County Court, you still didn't tell the truth. We learned that you lied--UNDER OATH, TWICE--in 1975 and 1978 about your bogus Harvard graduate degree. We learned from your ex-wife that your need to boast about this non extent Harvard degree was an addiction, that it was a habit you could not shake...