Word: boastful
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...survive, schools like Paramount must compete for market share by advertising in newspapers, putting up lawn signs and showering parents with pamphlets. Paramount likes to boast about its tiny student-teacher ratios, school uniforms and musical-theater program. A flyer for the school asked, "Are you ready for a change in public schools...
Powerhouse nations have powerful sports organizations. Japan. South Korea. Even China. They all boast big-time soccer, baseball or basketball leagues playing to packed houses with national television audiences. What then does the sorry state of pro sports in Indonesia say about the 200 million-strong archipelago? Perhaps more than abandoned building projects or creeping separatism, Indonesia's National League, a 28-team soccer federation that plays in decrepit stadiums on spotty pitches, is enough to make even the most patriotic pribumi wonder what has gone wrong...
...Venter, always one to boast, says his numbers are "a truth serum for the industry." He may be right; Incyte now says what it's got is the number of "messages" sent by genes, not the genes themselves. Their mistake, but maybe their profit too. Because the first consequence inflated numbers mean is that the longstanding "one gene, one protein" tenet of human biology has been thoroughly exploded. And the biotech world just got slapped in the face by a new frontier...
...first minutes of Wong Kar-wai's 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She's lovely and lonely; he's smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a boast to Maggie: "You'll see me in your dreams tonight." Next day he comes by again, and she brags that she didn't dream of him. "Of course," he replies with practiced confidence, "you couldn't sleep...
...nation." "For too long," he said, "politics in Washington has been divided between those who wanted Big Government without regard to cost and those who wanted Small Government without regard to need." Yet Big-Government needs dominated his team's public presentations. Cabinet Secretaries rushed to the cameras to boast of increases for children's nutrition, AIDS research, food safety--an agenda that would make Bill Clinton beam. Bush hit the road to boom the budget's 11.5% increase in funding for the Department of Education, which now secures its place as the third largest Cabinet department. Only...