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...strategies behind the tactics. First comes incessant polling to test a rival's vulnerabilities, then the devising of advertising slogans and one-liners for the candidate to exploit such weaknesses. Candidates call press conferences to exhibit their latest negative commercials, while consultants explain their psychological subtleties. Campaign strategists boast how they put in the candidate's mouth his most successful ad libs. It is as if acknowledging phoniness makes it honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Being Candid About Deception | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...Saints--who boast the best offense in the ECAC--needed only six minutes of the game to get their "catch-us-if-you-can" offense in gear...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Saints Prey Upon Cats, 4-2 | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

Mike Addesa had seen better days. His team had won the NCAA Championship in 1985. But ever since, Harvard has been the team to beat, the team that gets the bounces and gets to boast after victory after victory after victory...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Gloomy Revival | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Secrecy, it seems, is everywhere at a premium. Schleicher sells to schools as well as corporations in 110 countries. The company can even boast that the Intimus 007 S is Ayatullah-proof. By converting a piece of paper into 10,000 flakes, the machine makes it impossible to reassemble shredded documents, as the Iranians did after the U.S. embassy was seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFFICE EQUIPMENT: The Colonel Plugged 'Em | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...backyard," says John Hagan, the principal of Bowie High School in Maryland. Many parents believe supervised drinking is a safe solution. "I let my son share a beer with me once in a while," says one Manhattan father. "I think it's working. I've heard him boast to friends that he drinks with Dad, does not need to lie and sneak around for the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When Parents Just Say No | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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