Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With two down-to-the-wire victories in the last two weeks, Harvard suddenly can boast of having the third best record among the 24 ECAC Division I-AA schools. Something nice to think about while its Ivy title hopes dwindle...
...municipal ballot would, if passed, make it a crime to do research and other work whose primary purpose would be the development of nuclear weapons. While 25 other cities across the country have already passed such a law. Cambridge would be the first that would affect existing work. Proponents boast two benefits from enacting such tough legislation: to enhance the safety of Cambridge residents, and to send a strong message to Washington...
...widely described as "the only Democrat who can beat Reagan." Yet the question remains, as Mondale has put it, whether Glean is really a "true Democrat." He made it to the Senate largely on his glory, not on the grass roots meeting-hall, Humphreyesque training that Mondale and others boast. He has troubles appealing to the traditional Democratic constituencies of minorities and labor. If anything, The Right Staff clearly separates the appearance of that admirable trait from its actual presence. And is widens the gap in the image of John Glenn. Jacob M. Schlesinger
Currier House: Included in the original blueprints for the Houses. "Hell's Kitchen" is attached to the dining hall and equipped for facilities for deep frying potatoes and making frappes. It is the only House to boast an over for baking pizza, which goes for 75 cents a slice, 85 cents with pepperoni, and $4.75 or $5.50 for a whole...
...film bends over backward to seem fair to its swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna K. does boast what may be a film first: an infant's circumcision, in closeup. It is not the only moment in the movie when the viewer is provoked to sit up and wince...