Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forget--Israel is the sole liberal democracy in the Middle East. It does share the American concern for civil liberties and political participation. It does boast the best human rights record in the Middle East. Carter's moral imperative is still valid today...
...Crimson entered the match with a few monkeys on its back. The Orange and Black boast a team of four Ivy players, including the winner of the Princeton Intercollegiate Invitational, three-time All-Conference honoree Mary Faulk, and junior Mary Belknap, who has never lost a collegiate match. In numbers, depth is key for the Princeton squad which balances three seniors, seven juniors and four sophomores in its lineup...
Penn (1-1 Ivy, 4-9 overall) and its plethora of big men will be the first team to attempt to lower Harvard from the unbeaten Ivy ranks. The Quakers boast five men of 6'7" or better...
...Israeli defense planners consider Iraq's Sukhoi-24 long-range bombers an even greater threat than the Scud B missiles, which are notoriously inaccurate. Iraq is believed to have 25 of the advanced Soviet-made warplanes, which can make the round trip to Tel Aviv without refueling and which boast terrain-hugging radar. If even a single SU-24 slips through Israel's defenses, it can deliver a seven-ton payload with pinpoint accuracy. By comparison, each stripped-down Scud can pack only 662 lbs. of conventional explosives or 331 lbs. of chemical weapons...
...Vatican is especially concerned about Brazil, supposedly the world's No. 1 Roman Catholic nation, with 126 million on church rolls. Barely a tenth of those registered Catholics are regular churchgoers. This means that, astonishingly, there are almost certainly more Brazilian Protestants in church on Sundays than Catholics. Protestants boast a minimum of 20 million churchgoers and are expanding twice as fast as the overall population...