Word: confidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But being cooperative need not come at the expense of being confident or assertive. After all, the qualities most favored in Harvard classrooms are valued in career leadership.
The conference had started well enough for Kinnock. He easily defeated a left-wing attempt to replace him and won endorsement of a key policy document for reforming the party and making it electable again -- mainly by forsaking the goal of wholesale nationalizations. Then he delivered a confident, well- applauded...
The official line from the Harvard Rugby football club this week is that the squad is "quietly confident."
"We can't get too cocky now," Co-Captain Mike Newhouse said. "Last week was a real confidence booster. Playing in the cold, on a wet field, and in snow by the end of the game, we were still able to score 32 points. We're quietly confident."
But Quayle is not as vacuous as his critics and some of his odder statements ("I'm not a yuppie, I'm a Senator") suggest. He is knowledgeable about weapons systems and deserves praise for his work on the Job Training Partnership Act. His problem is that he has not...