Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, for its part, had a couple of stellar performances to boast about, most notably those of freshmen Don Pompan and Bob Horne...
Once, its very name was synonymous with the good life. No longer. Today Sweden, the postwar living example of the affluent materialistic paradise, is caught in a raging economic crisis, the like of which few industrial countries have seen since the 1930s. Workers who used to boast of their high living standards and womb-to-tomb social welfare system nowadays demonstrate in the streets to demand speedy government action to stop soaring prices and booming unemployment...
Takeover artists are often suspected of wanting to tap the till of the target company, but hardly any ever admit it-let alone boast about it. An exception is T. Roland Berner, chairman of Curtiss-Wright, who is campaigning to unseat directors of Kennecott Copper and install his own board in a shareholder election May 2. In the most unusual proxy statement in recent years, Berner last week vowed that if Curtiss-Wright gets control, it will distribute some $660 million of Kennecott's assets to stockholders-who prominently include Curtiss-Wright. It owns 3.3 million Kennecott shares...
...Their play is less constructive than is normal for children their ages; they seem to prefer throwing rocks and sticks to building blocks or story-telling. Under constant peer pressure, their level of competition increases to the point where many children seek the heaviest stones, and boast of having the strongest muscles...
...heart of Anglo-American jurisprudence is the adversary system, a device by which justice and truth are to emerge from the clash between two opposing viewpoints. "We boast about it, but it's a very mischievous system designed not to achieve but to frustrate the truth," declares New York City Lawyer Abraham Pomerantz. "Each side pulls out the facts that help and ignores those that don't. Out of that come confusion and distortion, and the cleverer guy wins." The system also suffers from disparity among lawyers. Some are superior, and others are what U.S. Judge David Bazelon labels "walking...