Word: boastful
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Though the concentrations vary immensely, most departments boast of their tutorial program's strength--and the quality of Faculty-student interaction that results...
...billion for tax cuts) yet still lay claim to eliminating the debt because of the government's forecast of a gaudy $4.6 trillion budget surplus over the next decade. The projected income may or may not materialize, depending on how the economy performs, but it allows him to boast of putting aside $2.8 trillion for Social Security and Medicare while leaving a $300 billion "rainy-day fund" untouched. Although his Medicare plan would encourage price competition between managed-care providers--it's not the one-size-fits-all program Bush claims--Gore dodges the toughest entitlement questions: when...
...Going in, he had been warned by the press that he had used up his lifetime allowance of melodrama with his sister's deathbed story, with his claim to being the model for Love Story (he was in part, the author confirmed, but Tipper wasn't) and with his boast that he took "the initiative in creating the Internet" (although even Newt Gingrich says Gore did so in the Congress). Gore is assumed to be exaggerating even when he's not. We're hypersensitive to the flaw, having just finished seven years with his boss, who really knew...
Cane fields still surround the plantation, and Madewood guests might easily imagine that they are members of an old-time Southern house party. All eight bedrooms boast fine canopied beds and spacious bathrooms. Guests may also stay in the three-bedroom Charlet House. At night everyone gathers around a huge dining table for a candlelight repast of gumbo or other Louisiana dishes. They may then move on to the formal parlor for coffee or gather on the veranda for a chat...
...billion for tax cuts) yet still lay claim to eliminating the debt because of the government's forecast of a gaudy $4.6 trillion budget surplus over the next decade. The projected income may or may not materialize, depending on how the economy performs, but it allows him to boast of putting aside $2.8 trillion for Social Security and Medicare while leaving a $300 billion "rainy-day fund" untouched. Although his Medicare plan would encourage price competition between managed-care providers - it's not the one-size-fits-all program Bush claims - Gore dodges the toughest entitlement questions: when...