Word: boasting
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Princeton enters the contest on a five-game winning streak, most recently disposing of Columbia and Cornell with a combination of stifling defense and timely scoring from freshmen Brian Earl and Gabe Lewullis. The Tigers boast the league's stingiest defense, allowing opponents an average of just 52.4 points per game...
...image is valid, but incomplete. There is reason for optimism, as well as despair. White rule has toppled; democratic institutions have emerged; and several of the nations--Mauritius, Namibia and Ghana--boast of growth rates that would be the envy of most other nations of the world. Africa indeed constitutes the development challenge of our time. But it is a challenge worth undertaking...
...difficult to say just what has happened. The real point is not to narrate the murder--as in the recent film Sister My Sister, another treatment of the same incident--but to create the atmosphere of insanity; and this requires much better acting than the Pool Theater production could boast. Rutkowski could communicate Claire's sense of superiority only through a sullen, sneering tone; she seemed irritable but not haughty...
...campaign insiders--even the speechwriters and the imagemakers--could boast the writing talent to pull off a work of fiction that is the best aide's-eye view of politics since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like...
They often boast resources and reputations that most standard public high schools can't offer...