Word: boast
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With the killings and counterkillings coming so fast that locals can barely absorb the news of one outrage before the next takes place, it feels like the beginning of something different--an atrocious new phase in an already gory conflict. Militants on both sides boast that they are ready for an intensification. But at the highest level of leadership, locally and in Washington, the crescendo of violence has produced what could prove to be a corrective shock. After refusing for months to venture into the unpromising business of trucemaking, the Bush Administration said it would send special Middle East envoy...
Minnesota, the Big Ten regular season runner-up, may still be in contention to host despite a poor conference tournament performance. The Gophers do boast a quality win over Purdue which is better than most of the teams on the bubble for hosting...
Cornell leads the Ivies with a 5 percent increase in tuition next year. Princeton and Yale, at 3.9 percent, boast the lowest increase in the league. And at Dartmouth, next year’s 4.4 percent increase represents the first time in over a decade that tuition at that school has increased by more than 3.5 percent...
...African-American, Asian-American and Latina friends. The name Kayla was chosen from a list of the country's most popular girls' names. Though Kayla, who should be on toy shelves this month, would not seem to share any DNA with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian Barbie, both boast the exact same height and measurements, which suggests that either their gene pools mingled sometime in the past or they share the same personal trainer...
...year-end, digital radio will be available in 85% of the U.K. Several other countries, including Belgium, Germany and Portugal, also boast extensive digital coverage. But Germany is Europe's biggest market. The enormous Japanese manufacturers are unlikely to mass-produce receivers until there is sufficient consumer demand for the radios there. But the German market - dominated by regional stations - is confusing, because most digital coverage is concentrated in the south. To fuel national demand, Helwin Lesch, general manager of Bayern Digital Radio, a transmitter-network operator, admits that German broadcasters are borrowing marketing ideas from Britain...