Word: boast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copilot calling out seconds on his trusty wristwatch. And then, there are the airports. More than 80% of Latin America's 1,085 airports lack permanent night landing lights; some 75% have no control towers, radios or paved runways; and only five fields on the entire continent boast a complete instrument-landing system...
...12th century music-drama that was unearthed in the British Museum. Elegantly staged in medieval setting and dress in a Manhattan church, Daniel was a solid off-Broadway hit of the 1959 season, won further acclaim during a 40-perform-ance tour of Europe. Today Pro Musica can boast a season of some 25 concerts in New York and 16 weeks on tour. In September the ensemble embarks on a seven-week State Department trip to Yugoslavia and Russia with an increased complement of six vocalists and 13 instrumentalists...
Justice Department lawyers boast that they have not lost any important antitrust case since 1953, and U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox has a string of 15 straight Supreme Court victories. "If I were in private practice," says a trustbusting lawyer, "I would advise my clients in concentrated industries that nearly any merger undertaken today is apt to be challenged successfully unless cleared with us beforehand...
...Midwest is growing more slowly than other regions because such fast-growth industries as aerospace and defense have drifted to areas that boast a gentler climate and more persuasive Congressmen. Compared with the same period last year, personal income during the first quarter rose scarcely 5% in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa. But auto-booming Michigan gained almost 8% , and the unemployment rate there is down...
Holding the Bags. Privately owned Deak & Co. issues no earnings reports. But Nick Deak happily admits that he has more than made good his boast to a wartime OSS comrade that he would open a small foreign-currency exchange, steadily expand and become a millionaire. His route to riches was, and is, tricky. Dealing in all currencies except four that are proscribed by the U.S. Government (Cuban pesos, Red Chinese yuan, North Korean won and North Vietnamese dongh), Deak always risks being caught with funny money. But he rarely loses...