Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penn also has a better record than 19 of the 21 nationally ranked teams. Only top-ranked Marshall (8-0) and second-ranked W. Illinois (9-0) could boast of better records...
...that Slotnick campaigned and the way that many other women try for leadership posts highlight the difficulties they face compared to their male counterparts. Women seeking leadership roles in campus organizations often emphasize the personal over the political, experience over vision. While men confidently boast that they know how to improve an organization, women tend to temper their campaigns, relying on their past devotion to the cause as proof of their leadership potential. But that is not enough, a confident agenda is often the only convincing basis for the selection of a leader...
...design or not, Rabin's new crackdown may have the political benefit of reassuring Israeli voters who deem the Labor Party soft on the Palestinians. The right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even boast they could crush the intifadeh in weeks. Labor leader Shimon Peres has endorsed proposals for negotiations that would return some territory to Arab rule, which many interpret as signifying an inability to quell the rebellion. Rabin seems determined to prove them wrong. Said Shamir media adviser Avi Pazner...
...what exactly does this facelift mean for the Kennedy School? Does the school plan to concentrate all its interests in the field of diplomacy and international relations? Is it aiming to become the new stomping ground for European and Third World bureaucracies? Will it now boast proudly of the Cambridge-Cairo connection in the same way that once it heralded the Boston-Washington link...
EXCUSE us if we're a bit confused. We are only students, after all. Normally, though, Harvard upperclassmen register on the day classes start. We should have 10 days of shopping period to choose classes. Student organizations are usually allowed to recruit freshmen at registration. Once, Harvard students could boast about the simplicity and painlessness of the starting-the-year process as compared to other schools...