Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That boast was prophetic. Last November religious-right candidates triumphed in about 40% of the more than 500 local and state races they contested nationwide. Since then, the conservatives have intensified their focus on school boards. "They provide a local forum at the grass-roots level in every community around which they can build a political network," says Michael Hudson of People for the American Way, an anticensorship watchdog group. "There is always something in the schools that mirrors cultural problems, whether sex education or AIDS or evolution." The strategy of the religious right, he says, is to "find...
...department held a press conference to boast of its new, racially diverse and gender-balanced class of rookie officers. Many officers within that class were given special training in everything from motorcycle riding to rape-crisis education...
Maxi's can boast that every item in the store costs 99 cents--$1.04 with tax. At $1.04, the detergent labelled $2.79 seemed like a bargain, while the little green lollipop did not. There are bins of 99-cent socks which smell as if they've already been worn, and crates of women's underwear, through which a middle-aged man was all too eagerly rifling as he eyed my cigar...
...hard to imagine running a committee of 40 or 50 people. Even in the halls of government to which so many zealous Council members aspire, few committees can boast of a membership half that size. On the bright side, it won't be a Washington nursery...
Compare this with the scant $11 million in concessions that it took to keep CBS from moving across the river. CBS has over 4,000 highly paid employees; it pays full rent and taxes on its facilities. Can the Yankees boast the same...