Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely surprising. For since the 1960s, greater Washington has evolved into a privileged ghetto, home of a pampered class all but immune to the disheartening tantrums of the economic weather. A few areas may look better off in certain statistics, but none can boast of an affluence quite like Washington's. It is effortless, persisting, secure. True, in the 71% black District of Columbia, poverty persists, along with the core city's reputation for street crime. Even so, black unemployment in D.C. is a third less than the U.S. average...
...also a principal Canadian manufacturing center for textiles, garments and shoes, industries that provide 25% of Quebec jobs. With a gross provincial product of $45 billion, Quebec provides 23% of Canada's total G.N.P., second only to neighboring Ontario. If Quebec became independent tomorrow, Lévesque likes to boast, it would rank as the 23rd wealthiest nation in the world, ahead of Iran...
...dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...
...Crimson swimmers face an uphill battle against Princeton and Yale, who boast swimmers with top-five Ivy League times in several events. Yale's Helen and Carolyn Hyde and Princeton's Beth Mauer, Mary Sykes and Nancy Conroy are swimmers to watch...
...professionalism, with a soupgon of eccentricity. The Cowboys have become the glamour team of pro football, home to the dazzling rookie with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett. In the old days, nicknaming a Dal las player consisted of calling Defensive Tackle Robert Lilly "Bob." Now the Cowboys boast "Manster" Linebacker Randy White (for each of the things he is half of) and the bookend defensive ends, Ed "Too Tall" Jones and Harvey "Too Mean" Martin. Then there is Tom "Hollywood" Henderson, who, during the offseason, dated one of the Pointer Sisters...