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Word: boastfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given this large amount of support the success of HAND is quite modest. It can boast of at most 200 regular volunteers compared to the more than 1500 volunteers at PBHA. I wonder how HAND would do without all the support from...

Author: By Stephen Klasen, | Title: Public Service Serving Itself | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

Coming into this year, many hockey experts predicted that Harvard would boast a solid defense. Thanks to Pawloski that prediction has come true...

Author: By Celeste M.K. Yuen, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Jerry Pawloski: A Proven Winner | 2/19/1992 | See Source »

...Lions boast a balanced scoring attack with Captain Kathleen Johnson, freshman Daria Brown and junior Rutkoske all netting 10 points-per-game. In addition, Brown's aggressive rebounding (9.3 rebounds-per-game) has her ranked third in the league...

Author: By Peggy L. Yeh, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Cagers Hope to Make up for Lost Time | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

Bush's long-term economic proposals to encourage savings and investment would have been credible if he had followed through on his boast to bring federal spending, particularly exploding entitlement programs, under control. Bush's budget did include a laconic proposal to cap the relentless growth in such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, but Bush himself glossed over the proposal in his speech, evidently afraid to use the politically charged word entitlement on national television. The next day, Budget Director Richard Darman backed further away from the cap, acknowledging that the White House would gladly abandon the controversial idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of the Union | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Which news item from the shadow world of basketball stardom was more poignant: Magic Johnson's announcement that he had contracted the HIV virus, or Wilt Chamberlain's boast, just days earlier, that he has had sex with more than 20,000 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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