Word: boastfulness
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...addiction that are modeled on those established for alcohol or drug dependency. Since Carnes opened the first inpatient sex-addiction treatment program in 1985, his method has been used with more than 1,500 patients. Four different nationwide support programs for sex addicts, patterned after Alcoholics Anonymous, boast a total membership...
...progenitors of this conservative cacaphony justify themselves by arguing that it is they, and not the campus's moderates or left-wingers, who truly represent the American "mainstream." Perhaps they are right; and yet this claim is not necessarily something to boast about. At one time, racism and sexism were mainstream American values, and many would argue that they are still pervasive...
...peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well. Subtract the West Germans and their world- record exports -- more than those of the Japanese, as Chancellor Helmut Kohl likes to boast -- and the E.C. would have a trade deficit of almost American dimensions...
After Metz's boast, the Crimson oarsmen responded with tens that left the heavies a full length ahead of UCLA at the 1300-meter mark. The race cadence of 36 strokes-per-minute was bumped up for the sprint while the Crimson crossed the line at 41, leaving second-place UCLA over a length behind...
Body Shop's 300 products derive mainly from plants and are not tested on animals. They come in simple plastic bottles that can be taken back to any one of its 464 stores, most of them franchises, for a discount on the next purchase. The shops boast distinctive wood decoration, but endangered tropical hardwoods are banned. Store-window displays protest the slaughter of whales and the dumping of wastes in the North Sea, and leaflets urge customers to help save the ozone layer. Roddick insists that her stores use recycled paper for everything from stationery to toilet tissue...