Word: bragging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more sensitive, the Keating Five scandal was a near death experience that changed the way he saw himself and the system. McCain had been at best a reformer junior grade. In fact, he voted against campaign-reform measures before being sucked into the sewer himself. He used to brag about the pork he brought home to Arizona. When an opponent in the 1986 Senate race pointed out the massive campaign contributions that McCain was receiving from defense contractors, McCain accused him of running "one of the most sloppy and dirty campaigns in Arizona's history." But all the while...
Lamont's third-floor reading room was renovated this summer, and posters there brag about the power outlets at every study space. And there's space to add roaming ethernet sometime soon...
...does Bradley mark this euphoric moment? Half an hour after his big speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little...
...into surface water in 1997, down from nearly 13,000 tons the year before. Is that an impressive improvement? Or is 6,600 tons still too much? Is there a permissible discharge level? And where did the discharges take place? What about emissions of greenhouse gases? Oil companies may brag about meeting tough targets on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide. But some advocacy groups say those targets shouldn't be accepted as goals because the ultimate goal should be an end to fossil-fuel...
Political candidates spend millions of dollars on consultants who can sand off the rough edges, buff the family values and come up with a pretested set of nostrums designed to calm the party activists in Iowa and New Hampshire. Follow the rules of the road--never brag, listen to your handlers, hope any controversial thing you ever wrote was pre-database, drop the idea that honesty is the best policy--and you might succeed. By these standards, Donald Trump will be the worst candidate in modern history. As the man once responsible for Georgia beauty Marla Maples' famous tabloid headline...