Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even states that boast bulging coffers seem reluctant to lay out more money for social services: though Texas will end this fiscal year with an estimated $300 million surplus, the state's department of human resources plans to meet an estimated $31 million cut in federal funds by slashing family-planning programs, emergency care for battered wives and protective services for abused children...
...American cities nowadays can boast two thriving newspapers. As a result, old-fashioned journalistic competition is practically a thing of the past. Gone are the days when rival dailies would scramble to beat one another on every story, raid newsrooms across the land for talent, open new out-of-town bureaus like bottles of beer, and in the process keep getting livelier and better...
...years ago. The renaissance has been led by a remarkable coalition of preservationists, Big Business and city government and, since 1971, has been accelerated by Mayor William Donald Schaefer ("Baltimore Is Best"), one of the most effective urban executives in the U.S. today (see box). Few cities anywhere can boast so dramatic a turnaround...
...distilling nitroglycerine in large quantities in his bedroom, which would seem to fall under "possession on University property of...explosives or combustible fluids." Indeed, his freshman adviser asked him to stop. But it was only when he had the bad taste to go on a local t.v. show and boast about his feat that they asked him to withdraw...
...individual concerns. Many of Georgakas' 'prolongevous' lessons would require people to pay such attention to lengthening their own lives that they could have little time or energy for passionate activism. He also largely dispels notions of national or racial bases for longevity, convincingly arguing that long-living communities can boast of unusual proportions of centenarians not because of genetic differences, but because of shared eating, sleeping, and other habits fostering long life...