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...expanded staff of the OSA can boast an impressive list of achievements from the last two years...
...take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh it." The movie reports that "Deep Throat was made for just $25,000. It grossed more than $600 million." (That last stat is a flexible one, like a guy's street-corner boast about his penis size. It's a tough sell, considering that the movie was banned in 27 states and didn't play the major theater chains.) Whatever the gross, Damiano didn't see much of it. The Perainos told him he was cut out of his one-third share...
...result is that the Golden Gophers boast the nation’s best scoring margin...
It’s not just the ability to party in our slippers that makes us love the Quad so much. We are well-fed, well-housed, and damn talented up here in Harvard’s northern woods. Our dining halls boast the best cooks (check the survey), we have the Pfoho Grille, and now crimsonfood.com delivers right to our doors. In the Quad, we have a higher frequency of singles—and obviously larger rooms in general—than any of the River Houses (with the exception of Mather’s lovely prison cells). There...
...likes to boast about its internal market of 450 million consumers, but when it comes to the service sector - which accounts for 70% of the European economy - life is anything but a bed of roses. More than a decade ago, the E.U. knocked down the major barriers impeding the free movement of goods, but a patchwork of local legislation and practices continues to hinder the movement of services. From accountants, lawyers and realtors to hairdressers, midwives and plumbers, those who try to offer services outside their home country risk being strangled by red tape...