Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard can certainly boast one of the world's finest faculties. It can also boast of the world's whitest, malest, oldest, stodgiest, non-teachingest faculties. Much can be done to attract professors of diverse races, genders, ages, academic backgrounds and educational attitudes without sacrificing quality...
Wondering how far the local lab goes in taking advantage of the Harvard name (Does it charge different rates for Ivy League and non-Ivy-League sperm?) I dial up the cryobank's Web page. Sure enough, it contains a small but noticeable boast: "The majority of our donors come from UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT." As of March 1, 1996, the Web site reads, the cost of a sample for fertilization starts at $142, for something called an intracervical insemination...
...sheer size of such facilities dwarfs the capabilities of private competitors and makes it tempting to take these rivals lightly. Postal managers boast that the U.S. system delivers as much mail daily as FedEx handles in a year. "We are at the extremes in everything," says New York Postmaster Sylvester Black. "We talk about the evolution of the mail, but the overwhelming majority of people get their bills by mail, pay their bills by mail and get their magazine subscriptions by mail. The old standby is still the old standby...
With a starting price of $15,200, the new Beetle can't boast that it's the cheapest of its class, a huge part of the original's appeal. German automaker Volkswagen was careful to add an array of modern amenities such as an adjustable steering column, a six-speaker stereo system, an air filter for the cabin, and air bags front and side. Still, such similarly equipped subcompacts as the Honda Civic, GM Saturn, Ford Escort, Chevrolet Prism and Toyota Corolla are all cheaper and better-established models...
ROCK OF AGES Can old men make new music? The Grammy nominators seem to think so. The five codgers competing for best rock vocal boast an average age of 51. Bob Dylan received his first Grammy nomination before four of the five female nominees were born. The women's division skews significantly younger and includes the barely legal Fiona Apple...