Word: boastfulness
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...Grande, but flavorists do--particularly when it comes to chile peppers. The spiciness in food is measured in Scoville units. A typical fast-food taco may reach 150 on the Scoville scale. IFF flavorists have developed chile essences that climb to 1 million. One drop, the scientists boast, can heat a giant pot--perfect when you're marketing to an audience unafraid of taste...
...arcade, and they want a way to organize it," notes Wynhoff. One of PBteen's most popular offerings is the Locker Collection of desks, dressers, bins and media consoles, all fashioned after high school lockers. Modular and multicolored, the collection offers a way to organize teenage rooms that now boast almost as many electronic gadgets as the family den. To allow self-expression, furniture designers are creating headboards and desktops that double as shadow boxes for showing off pictures, awards or drawings. Teens are "curating their space like it's their own museum," says DeeDee Gordon, co-founder...
Treason, lies and recession have sheltered Democrats from the bitter realization that they, like the Red Sox, have grown to depend on their evil other—the axis of Bush, Rove and Fox News—for their identity and raison d’être. Every boast that backfires, every crony that cheats and every Iraqi that blows himself up arouses a bitter, Bostonian satisfaction in Democratic hearts. Democrats have adopted that corrosive combination of helplessness and hopelessness that finds as much delight in an epic Yankee loss in Game 7 of the World Series, back...
...popular old sitcom “Sanford and Son.” Though Lamont’s website—complete with an intimidating logo of a hellhound surrounded by punk salutes—plays up the band’s tendency towards the dramatic, the boys of Lamont boast real experience; they’ve played seminal venues such as The Middle East, TT the Bear’s, and Manhattan’s CBGB’s Lounge. Though Knipfing freely admits to his previous Harvard employment, he concedes that he and the band...
...America we often boast of our nation’s immigrant history—and yet the Constitution requires that all of our presidents must be native-born citizens. It is time to end this archaic requirement...