Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very hard to blame them. Professors who feel they're contributing to scientific progress while making a buck don't like to be told they should stick to University activities. After all, private industry does boast far more advanced equipment than even the richest of universites. The notion of universities spearheading the quest for scientific advance is romantic, but it simply doesn't always happen that way. The 5 per cent of faculty members who choose not to disclose their outside lives--one expert's educated guess of the rate of noncompliance--may just be the ones who forge...
...netwomen now boast a 2-0 record for the fall season, including a 9-0 win over B.C. last Thursday...
...transfer his Air Florida tactics to Pan Am. Most doubted that Air Florida's chairman, Eli Timoner, who originally hired Acker to run the airline, would let his former colleague get away with it. Said Timoner: "No one beats Air Florida at its own game." True to that boast, the airline posted $69 New York-Florida fares, undercutting both Eastern...
...battle older teams from Princeton and Yale for the Ivy title. Both rivals have enhanced their squads with one prominent newcomer but will otherwise feature mostly veteran players. Princeton freshman Andrea Leand made national headlines recently by conquering second-seated Andrea Jaeger in the U.S. Open and Yale can boast of newcomer Connie Yowell, a former Mass, high school star...
While the renewed terror has muted Doe's critics, it has understandably done little to reassure foreign investors or Liberian businessmen of stability any time soon. One reminder is the conduct of Colonel Harrison Pennue, a former corporal and Doe loyalist who likes to boast that he disemboweled President Tolbert. Doe appointed Pennue to a P.R.C. committee charged with collecting $36 million owed by private debtors to the defunct Bank of Liberia. So far, says a foreign businessman, "not one cent" of the millions of dollars in cash that Pennue collected has been turned over to the central bank...