Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make a plausible delegate challenge, Hart needed a win in Texas and one in either Tennessee or Louisiana, not only to get within hailing distance of a convention majority but also to back up his boast that he has a better chance than Mondale of beating Reagan. But after last week's rebuffs, Hart may have little chance of winning over the party faithful in San Francisco. On Thursday, when he left Texas to campaign in Ohio and Louisiana, it seemed more like a retreat than a strategy. Gibed Mondale: "He ought to stick around and get his delegates...
Although the Harvard Admissions Office can boast a slightly higher acceptance rate by its successful applicants this year, the minority representation in the Class of 1988 will remain...
...CURRENT THREAT, though, is not that our government will develop such technology, but that it will not. The Japanese "National Superspeed Computer Project" and "Fifth Generation Computer Project" threaten to erase the supremacy of the United States in almost all areas of research. Already the Japanese boast a computer that is a thousand times faster than the speediest American model...
...Sandinista leaders boast of a "revolution without frontiers," and their 50,000-man army is a larger force than needed for self-defense, according to military experts. Before his death last year, Salvadoran Rebel Leader Salvador Cayetano Carpio declared: "The revolutionary process is a single process ... Guatemala will have its hour. Honduras its. Costa Rica, too, will have its hour of glory." To hasten that hour along, the Soviets shipped Nicaragua 15,000 tons of arms last year, while the Cubans stand near by with 153,000 troops. The borders of every country in the region are porous. Honduras, flanked...
...many ways, the President of the U.S. could not ask for a better election-year economy. Unemployment is falling, sales and profits are surging, investment is perking, inflation seems under control. After presiding over a deep recession, Ronald Reagan can now boast of having engineered one of the most stunning economic turnarounds in U.S. history...