Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucrative business, this, largely because there is almost no overhead, no rent, and, usually, no taxes. New York police estimate that a general-merchandise peddler makes an average of $15,000 a year; some boast of taking in $1,000 a day. Lobsang Khendup, 46, an enterprising wood-crafter in San Francisco, supports a wife and three sons on annual street sales of $22,000. "What better job is there?" asks Ellie Cohen, 29, who sells her own home-baked goods in Miami in the whiter and in Portsmouth, N.H., in the summer. " work for myself. If I get tired...
...handsomely by fat merchandising contracts with such outfits as Fisher-Price Toys and Hallmark Cards, Inc. Muppet faces appear on coffee mugs, T shirts, yo-yos, playing cards, pillowcases and anything else that will take an imprint. Henson is good at big money deals and smart enough not to boast about them. "It's important to me that the audience doesn't think of us in terms of figures," he says. "I don't want people looking at the Muppets and thinking, 'How much are they worth?' It's just not us. It could be destructive to the show...
Dartmouth, which was ranked seventh in New England before the contest and which even brags a win over Holy Cross, showed little to boast of last night, falling behind by as much as 19 points in the second half. Only some late gymnastics against Crimson rookies allowed the Big Green to narrow the final margin within the bounds of respectability...
Even for Uganda's mercurial dictator, Idi Amin Dada, it was a fairly grandiose boast. Last week, after a series of radio broadcasts falsely claiming that his country had been invaded by neighboring Tanzania, Big Daddy announced that a 2,000-man Ugandan force had made a "record in world history" by occupying a 710-sq.-mi. patch of Tanzanian territory in "the supersonic speed of 25 minutes." Henceforth, Amin declared, ''all Tanzanians in the area must know that they are under direct rule by the Conqueror of the British Empire"-one of several modest sobriquets that...
...presumably founded, and to which it even paid lip service in last spring's Corporation report. Clearly, then, the Kennedy School should return the money to the Charles Engelhard Foundation and rename the library to honor a more deserving figure. Only then will the school be able to boast of training scholars to serve the public interest...