Word: boastful
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...Ford Motor Co. likes to boast has been that it led the way in sales of pickup trucks for 30 consecutive years now. But with pickup truck sales sagging under a combination of rising gas prices and higher interest rates, Ford's success is looking very rather brittle these days."It looks as if they rode the pickup wave too long. It's looks as if they should have gotten off before the wave crested,"says Jeff Schuster, an analyst with J.D. Power & Associates office in Troy, Mich...
...Shultz88's storm troopers in July 2004. One of them introduced himself as Alexei, but would not give his last name because he was facing that same trial. He had spent six months in pre-trial detention, but was set free. Alexei boasted about the number of the "churki" and "yids" he assaulted - "And I don't care how many of them died." There wasn't another Alexei at the Shultz88 trial, so it must be he whom they let off scot-free. He knew he could afford to boast...
...rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance into grad school. And then there are the unquantifiable assets. At Davidson, townspeople and professors bake cakes for the winners of the freshman cake race and students boast that scattered around the campus are dollar bills held down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal...
...release of a new study finding high levels of pesticide in locally bottled sodas had India in an uproar last week, and the outrage fell squarely on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, which boast about 80% of the country's market for soft drinks. The southern state of Kerala has issued an order banning Coke and Pepsi products, while five other states barred soft drinks from public hospitals, government offices and the areas around schools. Nationalist groups burned soda bottles and fed the drinks to donkeys in protest...
...aura of pop culture, talent and exclusivity make manga artists like rock stars in Japan, and manga creator Natsuki Takaya can now boast of a new generation of devotees worldwide. The creator of Fruits Basket, a best-seller in North America, debuted in the early 1990s with manga in the Japanese magazine Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams) to become one of the industry's top shojo authors, creating manga for women that now sell in bookstores across the globe through publishers such as Tokyopop. In the creator's first U.S. interview, TIME's Coco Masters talks with Takaya...