Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contingency fund" to finance various recession-relief measures advocated by Democrats. The meaning: if Congress later fails to appropriate the money-or, more likely, fails to override the almost certain veto by Ronald Reagan-the $6 billion will simply vanish from the budget. This would allow Republicans to boast that they had held down spending and Democrats to tell their constituents that, well, they tried. In any case, there would be no major slash in the budget deficit, which would be between $170 billion and $180 billion...
...Brace Barnes '58 remembers that when she attended her husband's 25th Harvard reunion in 1966, the men came back to "brag and boast" and the activities were arranged like "one big cocktail party." This week when Barnes and her husband return for her 25th, she and most of the other women will have come back to "see each other and to talk about serious questions...
...trend when he built his own library at Hyde Park, N.Y., while still in office. Although he was President for only onesixth as long as Roosevelt, and in a time of less historical importance, Ford has a library in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a museum in Grand Rapids that boast 50% more space than F.D.R...
Students also boast of the unusual attention undergraduates receive from faculty members. Close to 100 percent of Yale's senior faculty reach undergraduates...
...Bruin coach Steve Gladstone has had something to do with the team's sudden success. With 13 years of college crew coaching experience, Gladstone brings as impressive 76-13 record into this season, including four undefeated seasons guiding the Crimson lightweights in the mid-1970s. In addition, the Bruins boast six veterans in their boat, not counting their captain and number-three man, Chris Ravenscroft...