Word: boast
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...Things cost a lot more: at least $80 million.) Law Abiding Citizen had the highest per-screen average of any film directed by F. Gary Gray. Oren Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget in each theater that showed it. Peli's homegrown horror movie also made the other new fright film in wide release, The Stepfather, a box-office orphan. It earned only $12.3 million...
...John Krafcik, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor America, is now able to do something rare for automakers: boast. "U.S. car buyers have responded in record numbers to high-quality, award-winning Hyundai products," he says. More significantly, praise is coming from Consumer Reports, J.D. Power & Associates' Initial Quality Survey and a panel of journalists at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit who named Hyundai's Genesis the 2009 Car of the Year. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...
...White House was patched through the Situation Room to the President's residence at about 6 a.m., where Obama was woken by the call. Gibbs has declined to describe the exact words that Obama used to describe his surprise at the news, but the President was happy to boast about his own daughters' comments to him later in the morning, an anecdote that served to highlight Obama's humble acceptance of the controversial award. "Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" (See TIME's photo-essay "Fun with Photoshop...
...first weekend of the Ivy League campaign showcases defending champions Dartmouth hosting up and comers Princeton. The Tigers boast an array of young talent, and this game will reveal whether they’re up for the challenge or just kittens in disguise. An early slip-up by the Big Green may prove costly for their title ambitions...
...ranks of the locavore movement, which promotes the use of locally grown produce, have been swollen in recent years by green chefs hoping to reduce their carbon footprints. But in famously gastronomic France, the trend has been surprisingly slow to catch on. In Paris, where restaurant menus boast langoustine from Madagascar and caviar from Iran, few gourmets imagine it possible to compose a meal from produce grown within 50 miles of the capital. But today, born-and-bred Parisian chef Yannick Alléno and a handful of others are doing just that. Their rhetoric stresses exclusivity and the revival...