Word: boast
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...time of possession victory should have been a sure path to success for the Lions, who boast the Ivy League's most dynamic rusher, junior tailback Jonathon Reese, Reese is Columbia's all-time rushing leader and the first Lion to gain 1,000 yards in a season, and his 1,052 yards leads the Ivy League. He had posted six 100-yard games in a row, erupting for 236 on 25 carries and 4 touchdowns against Dartmouth two weeks...
...before, but the man there said we'd passed the fifth Monday. So in the dorms the students screamed, the first-years cried and the slackers dreamed. Not a happy word was spoken. Our spirits all were broken. And those students I despised most, whose easy schedules made them boast, were so glad that they chose to coast the day midterms arrived...
...debate two, Gore did not boast and Bush didn't coast. The Governor even brought up East Timor voluntarily--a country whose inhabitants a few months ago he called Timorians--successfully deploying knowledge of the one to suggest knowledge of the whole. For his part, Gore had to forgo his brute-force game and, like a player coached out of a bad backhand but without time to develop a new one, he was left with no swing at all. He agreed with Bush on just about everything, including the Golden Rule, and committed no new anecdotal crimes...
While some who labor in these corporate hives are high on the buzz and boast that it's great for productivity, others are miserable. Researchers are starting to say with increasing insistence that much of the time the open-office style just doesn't work...
...germ of a counterrevolution brewing? On the surface, not really. From corporate behemoths like Alcoa to midsize ad agencies to tiny Web designers, companies are still opting for open-plan offices. More companies, like Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, now boast that not even their CEO has a door. Some have backtracked a little and provide sequestered spaces for the few, cubicles for the many. But most open-plan proponents still deride walls as barriers to the creative teamwork demanded by a high-speed economy...