Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coping with the boredom of sitting in small rooms for endless hours with nothing to do. It is no longer known where they are being held. They were said to have been dispersed from the embassy to 15 cities throughout Iran last spring, and are now, so the Iranians boast, in Tehran hotels. The militants say they have turned over the hostages to the Iranian government, but the government has never confirmed...
...contended they were at the mercy of OPEC. But the year between the first quarter of 1979 and the first quarter of 1980, Occidental's profits increased 236 per cent, Mobil's rose 105 per cent, and Exxon's jumped a tidy 102 per cent. Poor Gulf could only boast of a 56 per cent profit increase...
Exxon is reconsidering the scope of its plans, but the development already taking place in western Colorado is leaving its mark. In Craig, which has doubled to 8,000 since 1975, businessmen boast of the new mall with 26 stores; clapboard houses that sold for $30,000 in 1974 now go for better than twice that amount. But Sheriff S.L. Valdez is handling three times the calls he did two years ago, and Carl Andrews, an Episcopal priest, reports a heavy incidence of depression and child abuse. Says he: "A lot of the hopes and dreams never materialize...
...first time ever, the aquawomen also boast a bunch of sophomores who can be counted upon to perform consistently well. Terri "Tune" Frick shone in the season opener against B.U., with strong swims in the 400 I.M. and the 200-yard butterfly, and has finished close behind Zimic and Floyd in several freestyle events...
...Mencken once described Pittsburgh as "...appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...