Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign insiders--even the speechwriters and the imagemakers--could boast the writing talent to pull off a work of fiction that is the best aide's-eye view of politics since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like...
They often boast resources and reputations that most standard public high schools can't offer...
...item in the trade newspapers, except for a striking fact. One company--and one man--stood to gain more than anyone else from the exercise in U.S. trade pressure. The man is Carl Lindner, 76, a Cincinnati, Ohio, real estate, insurance and banana tycoon who likes to boast of his friendships with U.S. Presidents and sometimes blusters about what his political connections can do for him. For more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner, whose empire is worth an estimated $13 billion...
...innocuous parts of Usenet with its race baiting. Members claim to have emptied out half a dozen forums already, including, improbably, alt.fan.barry-manilow and alt.food.dennys. "If you want an organization which makes things happen, visit our victims and learn first-hand what kind of a group we are," they boast at their World Wide Web site, which features an image of a burning cross. "CLOC is clearly on the forefront of the great war for Aryan domination of the Internet...
Yale University is not a profit-making institution. It can't boast of vast stock gains that it should be sharing with its students and employees. Its endowment is roughly one-third the size of Harvard's. To attract bright graduate students (especially when competing with Harvard), it must already offer financial aid at the bounds of its capabilities. Not only does GESO not have a case for unionization, but it wouldn't stand to gain much even if it succeeded...