Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phil Gramm has been traversing the country with a slickly produced slide show designed as much to intimidate opposing fund raisers as to shake the tree for himself. This week Bob Dole is preparing his third direct-mail drop in nearly as many months. And while candidates like to boast about the number of days they've spent in hurdling snowdrifts in New Hampshire and sampling sausage in Iowa, they're less forthcoming about the many trips to beg in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Aspen, Colorado, where the real money...
...each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser who is being...
...Golden Knights boast the most explosive offense in the ECAC, netting 101 goals while giving up just 64. The top guns for Clarkson are Claude Morin (10-22-32) and Marko Tuomainen (13-18-31), who are fourth and fifth in ECAC scoring, respectively...
...despite the statistics, and despite thesanguinity displayed by many Harvard and Radcliffeadministrators, sizable obstacles remain for manywomen in groups on campus. Organizations like theUndergraduate Council, which, after fourteen yearsof existence, has yet to boast a female Chair,demonstrate that the problems facing women oncampus are not merely a thing of the past. And asthe following stories illustrate, even where womenhave achieved success, there can be no denyingtheir frustrations and dilemmas...
...coupon system is far from perfect, but at least it can boast of its purely voluntary nature. After all, no one would have to buy coupons. In fact, the character of day-to-day charity could change dramatically. The decision to give would no longer be so spontaneous. The foresight necessary to have bought a set of coupons would have to precede any charity. This premeditated giving could not possibly become as widespread as giving is today; it simply requires too much planning from people with many other concerns...