Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Universities can--and do--boast of having heads of state, such as Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto '73, as graduates. By inviting Bhutto to be this year's Commencement speaker, Harvard has shown that academic excellence is not its sole concern. National and international prominence, it seems, is equally important...
...productive citizens of the United States are or were members of the fraternities and sororities, among them the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Louis Sullivan of the Bush cabinet and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (all of them members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity). If organizations that could boast of such people were allowed to organize on Harvard's campus, the benefits to the Harvard, Cambridge and Boston communities would be immeasurable...
Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in Sunday's Indianapolis...
...question is whether anyone else will -- or can. The system's defects are rooted in the fact that one party, facing an ineffective opposition, has held power for 34 straight years. But the Liberal Democrats boast a spectacular record for peace and prosperity during those years, and no one knows whether Japan's irate electorate will force the party into lasting reform...
Actually, the only reason we have the luxury of even debating pulling a few thousand dollar ad account is because we can afford to keep running the presses without it. The Crimson is financially secure because of its ad base and graduate donors--comprised of the very groups that boast the very union-busting and investment practices we editorialize against. Pulling the ad is tantamount to giving with one hand, while taking with the other...