Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservatives, who used to boast that they were at one with ordinary Americans, get it so wrong? The answer begins with the end of the cold war, when the collapse of the Soviet Union gave them the opportunity to focus on the culture wars at home. Optimistic libertarians, the kind who believe that free choice is good and that free markets foster it, are still to be found in the Republican Party. But the more influential voices on the right these days are bleaker. They see America becoming a cesspit of promiscuity and godlessness and blue dresses with who knows...
...like a WWF ring is called the squared circle. Somebody wanted to create little self-contained units of eaters. "I think it's more sociable," one of the card-swipers told me. "We'll probably try this for a few weeks." If all went well, I figure, Annenberg could boast a Grays West square, a rugby square, a Stuyvesant square and possibly a table, home to much revelry, of prospective math/physics double concentrators...
...business, more and more of the wealthy are availing themselves of sophisticated tools that can be used--often legally, sometimes not--to avoid taxes and potential claimants. In the U.S. alone, thanks to the vibrant economy and the long bull market in stocks, more than 2.5 million households now boast investable assets of more than $1 million, up from 2 million households in 1995. "This market is exploding," says Mark Stevens, president of personal financial services for the Northern Trust Co., based in Chicago. He notes that while the U.S. population is growing 1% a year, the ranks of millionaires...
...about what undergraduates thought, she would have started earlier and talked to more students. But this measly three-House compensation swing is indicative of everything at Harvard-Radcliffe, where undergraduate opinion is really valued only in response papers (if there even). With this tour, Wilson can now go and boast to alumni/ae that she has done her homework: she has talked to the students...
Maybe she learned from President Neil L. Rudenstine, who can boast that he talks directly to the students when he has just one office hour a month for all 6,500 of us. Doesn't anyone at this place care? There is one administrator who bothers to visit all 13 dining halls when he wants to know what students think: Harvard Dining Services Executive Chef Michael Miller. If Miller can put that much effort into getting our feedback on steak bombs and popcorn chicken, shouldn't Wilson be doing at least as much for the future of Radcliffe...