Word: boast
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...operated on such a base level. As Nov. 2 approaches, ads have become ever more exploitative of human fears—fears that often have no grounding in reality—and increasingly devoid of pertinent information. Unfortunately, both political camps are complicit; neither Republicans nor Democrats can boast of integrity...
Several cities boast of being the first wi-fi burg in the U.S. Grand Haven, Mich. (pop. 10,900), contends it locked up the title when it covered its 7 sq. mi. last March. But it's not the only player on the field. Cities such as Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Athens, Ga.; and Chaska, Minn., let folks roam the wireless Web from street corners all around town. Whereas those places might be ahead of the curve, analysts say that big profits have been elusive for companies backing wi-fi projects. Just because you're among the first doesn...
Both squads boast balanced offensive attacks, splitting up about 400 yards of total offense per game almost equally between the air and ground games...
There are teams, of course, that sport a diverse range of concentrations. Just as the women’s lightweight crew leans towards the hard sciences, their male lightweight counterparts can boast of the one of four classics concentrators in all of varsity athletics, one of five computer science majors and one of two religion majors. One women’s heavyweight rower, Anna R. Rosenblum ’06, is one of just a handful of classical archaeology majors in the college. Morning practices notwithstanding, the crews are, percentage-wise, among the most diverse teams on campus?...
...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...