Word: brags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brag about it at his press conference, as Nixon often did, but he is a lawyer and should be familiar with burden-of-proof theory. He should know that with a nearly all-white faculty, it is not enough to say that the Law School wants more minority professors and teaching fellows. It's time to prove...
...helpful hints on how to lick high prices. Ford requested - and got - prime-time tri-network coverage of his speech to the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City, Mo. It was a rather inflated forum, given the caliber of the message. "Bring budgeting back in style," he said. "Brag about the fact that you are a bargain hunter . . . save as much as you can and watch your mon ey grow...
...bring more misery, degradation, and even death to loved ones than wars, disease and boozeless crime all put together, but loyalty will remain steadfast and true. Those who are dedicated to liquor will worship it, brag about it, shield it from criticism like a doting mother protecting a spoiled and criminal son, even when statistics show John Barleycorn to be probably our most expensive national "luxury...
...charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
Last week it appeared that this unusual two-tiered arrangement, which Perot's associates Like to brag is an "innovative and very sound structure," was in danger because Walston continues to lose so much money. Strong but unconfirmable rumors were sweeping the securities business that Perot was seeking to merge Walston with another, sounder Wall Street firm. There were reports, too, that Perot's lieutenants had tried to sell some of Walston's branch offices to other Wall Street houses. Still another prevalent report was that some New York Stock Exchange members were urgently meeting...