Word: boastful
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...ensure that 10% of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2010. Last June, a study by the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change showed Britain among the most probable nations to meet the targets. Greenhouse gases dropped 6.5% between 1998 and 1999 alone, Environment Ministry officials boast, while toxic CO2 emissions have been cut by 9% between 1990 and 1999. Potentially quadrupling current British wind power, the sites will be home to some 500 turbines expected to generate enough power to supply more than a million homes. "I want Britain to be a leading player in this...
...even now that the recording companies have muzzled Napster, their real solution is nowhere in sight. Computer nerds, bless their souls, seem to have an unyielding desire to boast their virtual manhood. Encryption codes will be broken; system will be beaten. Gnutella, for example, is a small, mysterious little file sharing program that has no central servers to blame and will probably allow piracy to thrive as long as the Internet exists. No one can stop the wave...
Elizabeth Catherine Bush was no Charles Andrew Williams. She didn't shoplift booze or boast of pulling a Columbine. Bush was a quiet eighth-grader who attended Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pa., a cozy Roman Catholic school that holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights...
...name, announcing itself last May with an exposé - using spy cameras - of corruption in the top ranks of Indian cricket, the national sport. Now the fledgling web site has stirred an even bigger storm by secretly filming politicians, bureaucrats, army officers and business touts as they boast about fixing defense deals and, in some cases, are seen actually pocketing bundles of banknotes offered by Tehelka reporters posing as representatives of a fictitious British manufacturer of thermal imaging binoculars...
...East, Big West and Big South all have one. So do the MAC, the SWAC, and the WAC. The Atlantic-10 has had one for 25 years, the Big Ten adopted one three years ago, and as of next season, the PAC-10 will finally boast of one as well...