Word: boastful
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...capacity for hundreds of charge and discharge cycles, are increasingly one of the most popular types of battery. The Lightning, on the other hand, has benefited from the wonders of nanotechnology. Its 30 batteries are made of lithium-titanate nanoparticles, a development from the conventional lithium-ion cell; they boast a range of over 185 miles and take only 10 minutes to recharge...
...figure included $11.8 billion of stock that it plans to issue and the assumption of $9.6 million of TCI debt.) That would make the deal second in size only to the $25 billion purchase of RJR Nabisco by buyout barons Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1988. The new giant would boast 28 million cable and phone customers across the U.S. and combined revenues of more than $16 billion, making it by far the largest of the seven Baby Bell companies that were spun off from AT&T in 1984. Most important, the merger would hasten the arrival of what has been...
...world. Cannes, for example, has invested nearly $50,000 in floaters and netting to create jellyfish-free zones the size of Olympic swimming pools at two of its most popular beaches. Similar systems have been deployed in Monaco and along certain sections of Marseille's coast. Though nets boast near perfect records in protecting bathers from stings, they do nothing to counter the larger jellyfish onslaught. Last year, Cannes shoveled over 11 million tons of the gooey creatures off its beaches - just a tiny fraction of a population that floats away to sting another...
...different from U.S. universities," says Alison Richard, vice-chancellor of Cambridge. "But our endowment isn't sufficient, so it's a real stretch." Private donations invested by Yale University are currently worth some $23 billion; the endowment fund of rival Harvard is $35 billion. Dozens of other American universities boast funds valued at more than $1 billion. Even Britain's wealthiest universities are poor by comparison. The central endowment fund at Oxford is about $1.3 billion, and Cambridge's stands at roughly $2 billion. (The universities' individual colleges - Oxford has 39, Cambridge 31 - separately hold endowments worth a total...
...course of doing it, they have their kids tested to find some little quirk, some little vulnerability? And that's a measure of parental anxiety. And the parental anxiety is willing to put a negative label on kids. That's really something very new. You don't boast your strengths. You boast your weaknesses...