Word: boastful
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...headlines haven't dented job seekers' desire to dissemble even as employers have grown increasingly able to detect deception. InfoLink Screening Services, a background-checking company, estimates that 14% of job applicants in the U.S. lie about their education on their résumés. (A common boast by guys: that they played on the college football team.) ResumeDoctor.com a résumé-writing business, found that of 1,000 résumés it vetted over six months, 43% contained one or more "significant inaccuracies...
Corey M. Rennell ’07 will soon boast more than climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, and surviving anthrax contracted from a sheep as among his feats. Rennell will be one of six participants in an upcoming reality TV show produced by BBC and The Discovery Channel. Rennell said he will receive $10,000 for participating in the program. Rennell was one of over 100 Americans who applied for the show, according to Louisa M. Griffith-Jones, associate producer for the BBC. The program will feature three American and three British male athletes who will spend...
SYDNEY Tommy Hilfiger's sunglasses ($70) boast a unique color-fade effect in the face of the bright Australian...
...reliably great member hasn't exactly softened his material (fishscale is apparently slang for uncut cocaine), but then he hasn't lost his ability to tell a story either. In Ghostface's dexterous delivery, a line like "Workin' out, all I curl is my index finger" is less a boast about control than one more detail in a life of paranoia. The production puts equal value on melody and tension and even has room for nostalgia--9 Milli Bros. is a Wu-Tang reunion--but the truth is that Ghostface is better...
Four teams—Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and Penn—boast records better than .500. That makes every match-up between the teams crucial in the hunt for the Ivy title...