Word: gloats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus partisans, the reaction was a bit different. On a campus some say is dominated by liberals Republicans finally got an excuse to gloat...
Perhaps the most interesting part of the interview which seemed to indicate Quayle's political growth was that he resisted the temptation to gloat and take credit for inaugurating the family values sound bite. Instead, he said the idea was actually nor his at all; rather, that he was drawing on ideas brought up by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) years ago. Quayle looked supremely reasonable and the press looked like the distorting villain, just the tack he hopes to take to restore his credibility...
Conservatives had little time to gloat. The 25.6% vote won by the ruling coalition of neo-Gaullists and center-rightists was a sharp rebuke in contrast to the 39.5% it had scored in last year's legislative polls. Moreover, the government's pro-European stance was undermined by an anti-Maastricht movement headed by conservative Deputy Philippe de Villiers. Last week's wan showing and the fading chances of a leftist victory next year are likely to crack the right's brittle unity. Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur could be joined in the race for the Elysee...
...Boss was back with bluster intact, posing as Napoleon for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover. Sportswriters welcomed him, for unlike the drab slumlords who run most teams, Steinbrenner is good copy: a reprobate of Dickensian, comic complexity. And like Saddam Hussein, the principal owner gets to gloat that he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from...
...Lighten up. The situation is probably not all that bad. It often seems as if everyone who discusses dating at Harvard is complaining about it. This makes sense. When people gloat, the natural reaction is a desire to punch them. Besides, people pleasurably involved in relationships usually have better things to do than openly analyze their situation...