Word: brags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brace Barnes '58 remembers that when she attended her husband's 25th Harvard reunion in 1966, the men came back to "brag and boast" and the activities were arranged like "one big cocktail party." This week when Barnes and her husband return for her 25th, she and most of the other women will have come back to "see each other and to talk about serious questions...
...House staff meeting the next morning, the mood was somber, despite the attitude of detachment toward the Senate budget decisions. It was dawning on everyone that Reagan's inability to wring an acceptable budget out of the Republican Senate was a sign of political weakness, not something to brag about on the hustings. It was becoming clear too that running against Congress is tricky when one house belongs to the G.O.P...
...practice in Beverly Hills. "People are ashamed of paying too much in taxes, as if it's a sign of stupidity. It is no longer accepted that good and noble people patriotically pay their taxes. There's a cultural milieu that supports not paying taxes. So people brag about it, as if it were a badge of honor...
Business representatives and students tried simultaneously to sell themselves to each other. But while the reps could brag about state-of-the-art electronics or big money investment choices, many students found it difficult to parlay their liberal arts education into one of these fast-growth industry positions...
...Beacon Hill, are shady and civilized, block after block of stately 19th century town houses. The symphony and principal museum are among the world's best. Fine colleges help make the city an enormous intellectual hot tub, at once invigorating and smug. Now Boston's boosters can brag about more than old-shoe gentility: over the past decade a decrepit waterfront district has been intelligently transformed into a swank commercial and residential quarter whose centerpiece, the Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market showplace, draws natives and tourists by the millions. At the other end of downtown, $400 million is going...