Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boast wood-fired cooking as a featured specialty. It would seem that the war of the wood-burning stoves, coming close on the heels of the specialty coffee turf struggle and the all-natural personal beauty products battle...
...could well be that the only thing at Harvard older than the boxing club is its coach, Tommy Rawson. The club was founded more than a century ago and can boast having schooled Teddy Roosevelt '04 in the sweet science. Rawson, born in 1908, can boast of many more interesting things...
...this point, however, innovation is the exception. Even in communities that boast a spirit of tolerance, citizens are turning their energies to driving out the homeless. In San Francisco, city planners have designed sleep- proof seats to chase the homeless from bus shelters. Santa Monica's police issue citations to people who loiter in parks after midnight; repeat offenders go to jail. Legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, have outlawed "aggressive panhandling." In Atlanta, where civic leaders want to polish their city in preparation for the 1996 Olympics, new ordinances make it illegal to sleep on park benches, wash motorists' windows...
...that politics can no longer afford to overlook them. Michael Woo, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for mayor of Los Angeles this year, demonstrated the fund-raising resources of prospering Asians by drumming up campaign contributions across the country. While Woo's defeat was a blow to morale, Asians can boast three members of Congress from California: U.S. Representatives Robert Matsui from Sacramento, Norman Mineta from San Jose and Jay Kim from Diamond Bar, east of Los Angeles...
ELECTIONS: Sorry, It Was Only a Boast...