Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the lopsided statistics, the shabab boast of their accomplishments. "We've finally made the Israelis afraid of us," says an activist named Jamal, 21. His boyish face bespeaks both pride and intense anxiety. "You only die once," he says with some relief. Only once, like his friend Nadir Tayseer Abu Yasin, 14, who was "martyred" two days earlier. Jamal pulls out a photo of the dead boy taken moments after the shooting. "This is our fate...
...derived from a book that had also prompted a made-for-TV movie. Brecht's own The Threepenny Opera, featuring rock star Sting as the seductive villain Macheath, is freely filched from British satirist John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera. Sad to say, although each show could boast ingenious design and staging or beguiling acting, far from the best writers have been at work...
...companies demand American-style management at stockholders' meetings, we must clearly say no. That's what we did recently to T. Boone Pickens, a man with a disreputable reputation. America is in decline because of American managers who only care about their short-term gains so that they can boast about them at the next shareholders' meeting. Japanese managers use shareholders' meetings to explain their long-term plans and ask shareholders to bear with limited dividends. Japan has succeeded in rebuilding its economy because it has kept its idiosyncrasies, that is to say, management philosophy, labor- management relations and company...
...Paul Howley and Ed Presz have graduated, but Hartje is carrying on the tradition--even if he is playing third-shift center this season. Hartje will skate with senior John Murphy, a fourth-year starter, and sophomore Timmy Burke, who saw limited action last season. The final line will boast the other two rookies to make this year's squad--Matt Mallgrave and Steve Flomenhoft--as well as JV call-up Craig Miskovich...
...Harvard's nine faculties, an average of 31percent of alumni gave last year. And Glimp saysthat figure is consistent with the success ratesat Yale University and the University ofPennsylvania. Some smaller schools--like DartmouthCollege and Princeton University--boast ratescloser to 40 percent, he says...