Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade. (Here's one, originally written in 1979, name of Total Recall.) Then, in these days of multinational superproductions, you want it to star an Austrian, be directed by a Dutchman, and cost about $60 million. (Total Recall, a Paul Verhoeven film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.) You want it to boast elaborate sets and gadgety special effects. (TR created a Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense. (TR filches blithely from Star Wars and Blade Runner, from RoboCop and Hitchcock films.) You want it to have plenty of cartoon mayhem...
Despite Harvard's boast that it provides for 100 percent of estimated financial need, Harvard's estimates often differ wildly from the estimates of a student facing a four-year bill in excess of $80,000, especially when accepting a financial aid package can mean saddling one's self with a student-loan debt of more than...
...addiction that are modeled on those established for alcohol or drug dependency. Since Carnes opened the first inpatient sex-addiction treatment program in 1985, his method has been used with more than 1,500 patients. Four different nationwide support programs for sex addicts, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, boast a total membership...
...progenitors of this conservative cacaphony justify themselves by arguing that it is they, and not the campus's moderates or left-wingers, who truly represent the American "mainstream." Perhaps they are right; and yet this claim is not necessarily something to boast about. At one time, racism and sexism were mainstream American values, and many would argue that they are still pervasive...
...peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well. Subtract the West Germans and their world- record exports -- more than those of the Japanese, as Chancellor Helmut Kohl likes to boast -- and the E.C. would have a trade deficit of almost American dimensions...