Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next door in Room 23, unbeknownst to the Democrats, a three-person team from the Washington-based National Republican Institute is advising the Forum on campaign tactics. G.O.P. consultant Richard Galen suggests that the party should boast to the press how many seats it intends to win in the new parliament. But Ferenc Kulin, a Forum official, objects that such specificity would demoralize his party's weaker candidates. Not if you don't identify which seats you fear losing, Galen explains. "All candidates are optimists," he says. "They'll think they're the ones who are going to win." Kulin...
...Plymouth Laser and Eagle Talon, the company has introduced a family of U.S.-built V-6 engines. The automaker's real product gap is in the mid-size-car category. To counter that, Chrysler will introduce a striking auto in 1992, code-named the L/H, which will boast, among other things, a new multivalve Chrysler engine...
...best- seller charts. Considering the widespread publicity given to marital cheating, Greeley admits that the survey results were "something of a surprise." "People may talk more than they actually do," says the celibate Roman Catholic priest, who plans to expand his research into a book tentatively called Faithful Attraction. "Boasting about one's sexual achievement is nothing new. Not many people boast about being virtuous." Adds Harris: "The secret side of sex is faithfulness...
Offensively, the Eagles boast a high powered first line of wings Steve "57" Heinze (23-24--47) and Marty McInnis (13-19--32) centered by David Emma...
INITS newly instituted and seldom seen newsletter, council members boast as among their major accomplishments: providing bus transportation to the Yale game (an annual tradition), sponsoring a forum on minority and women faculty hiring (mostly the work of non-council member Lucy H. Koh '90) and sponsoring a concert by an unknown group called the Bermuda Strollers (actually a promotional stunt for a spring break tour company). These are student services...