Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...institute would boast visiting fellows, acadre of scholars, new courses and rejuvenatedresources--in a perfect world...
...Vatican, but he still sounds more like a ward heeler than a diplomat. "I've always been a fighter for the poor people of this city, and I'll continue to do that," Flynn says one morning as he waves at rush-hour traffic. It's a well-earned boast, but it isn't backed up by much in the way of new ideas. Asked what he'd do in Congress, Flynn ticks off a laundry list of Democratic perennials, like raising the minimum wage and increasing spending for early-childhood education...
...relationship between the gun industry and criminals who use its products. Manufacturers design certain guns to appeal to criminals, the plaintiffs say, like snub-nosed revolvers that can be easily hidden under a shirt. The companies then advertise to criminals with felon-friendly claims, the suit charges, like the boast that the TEC-DC9 assault weapon offers "excellent resistance to fingerprints." And the weapons are distributed to gun shops that wink as straw buyers snap them up and whisk them off to be sold out of car trunks in high-crime neighborhoods...
Harvard fencing can boast of a couple of All-Americans in women's captain Jill Katz--a Second Teamer--and men's captain Michael Gattnar, who earned First-Team honors after winning the IFA championship in epee, his weapon of choice...
Mosley can also boast of an impressive season, as he took his second trip to Nationals. He grappled in the 167-pound weight class with two-time national finalist Brandon Slay of Penn, and lost in one-point heartbreakers...