Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gamble on their future. The town has already known its share of heartbreak. In 1976 lightning struck the local J.C. Penney outlet and burned it down; it was never rebuilt. Through the 1980s, the town's largest employers -- Sheaffer and Chevron -- staged devastating layoffs. Although citizens liked to boast that Fort Madison was "a place where you can raise kids," many drifted away; since 1987 the town's tax base has dwindled 20%. To attract Goldstein and his $10 million Emerald Lady, Fort Madison floated a $2.2 million bond issue that financed a waterside pavilion, a walkway and parking lots...
...average), and the merchandise is displayed all the way up to the ceiling on high-tech impressionistic wire mannequins bathed in track lighting. Tops, pants, shorts and jackets are often clustered in the same spot for customers who can't match clothes on their own. Many stores also boast a 25-screen video wall from which computer-controlled rock videos play perpetually. By using computers, boasts marketing director Lesly Martin, "our buyers were actually able to track the day neon beachwear died." Radical...
HARVARD CAN certainly boast one of the world's finest faculties. It can also boast one 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...
Both teams have lost high-powered players to graduation and boast young defensive lines, anchored by highly-touted junior netminders. And each team is still searching for the right offensive formula...
That's where Feldstein comes in. Well-respected in his field, the 51-year-old economist is the only candidate who can boast experience in the world of politics and business...