Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter holidays near and most students undertake rigorous exam schedules (except for Harvard), the hockey schedule slows down. League action will include only two games until the Auld Lang Syne tournament at Dartmouth over winter break (December 29-30), which should boast solid competition between league opponents Cornell, Northeastern and host Dartmouth. ECAC STANDINGS OVERALL ECAC Team W L T W L T UNH 10 1 0 5 0 0 Northeastern 7 4 1 5 0 0 Brown 5 2 1 2 0 1 Providence 5 4 0 2 1 0 Dartmouth 7 4 0 2 1 0 Princeton...
...Russian government announced that troops would begin patrolling railway stations as the country nears December 17 elections that boast a complicated lineup of 43 parties and 2,700 candidates. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that the government worries that Chechen rebels will try to disrupt the voting with bombings as part of their pledge to bring the Chechen war to Moscow. "The government made a very bad mistake, With Russian troops still in Chechnya, they decided to go ahead with not only national elections but also with local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with...
...Milanese court's clothing, based on the clothing of seventeenth-century European aristocrats, with Prospero's shaman costume. Ariel and Caliban, dressed and body-painted like native islanders, also contrast effectively with the conservatively outfitted Milanese. The butler Stephano (Charles Levin) and the jester Trinculo (Thomas Derrah) who boast more colorful costumes, go through several changes-including some cross-dressing-after they discover a glistering wardrobe...
...doesn't take Karl Marx to see the sharp division between the "have" and "have-not" teams in the ECAC. The conference's top six teams boast a combined 25-3-6 league record, while the bottom six are 5-27-2 against ECAC competition...
...memory compression itself is a pipe dream. On the contrary, the technology is real, and Syncronys is not the only company to have cashed in on its appeal. But neither of SoftRAM 95's top competitors--Connectix's RAM Doubler and Quarterdeck's MagnaRAM2--can boast sales approaching SoftRAM 95's 650,000 copies. And while some have complained about the speed of the other products, neither has been targeted for the kind of virulent attacks mounted against SoftRAM...