Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Okay, I'll admit the Celtics are the best team in basketball. But, since when does the best team in basketball win the title? Instead, I'm picking a surprise--Kansas City. The Kings boast the league's best backcourt, Otis Birdsong and Phil Ford. In addition, power forward Bill Robinzine's wife sat next to my father on an airplane the other day. Since we're practically related, I'm picking Robinzine and the Kemper Kids over the Celts in a six-game final...
...filed the speech away. Since then he has been beaten three more times-in Maine, Minnesota and, most embarrassingly, in his own backyard of New Hampshire. Yet because he got more New Hampshire votes than Carter did in 1976.* Kennedy thrust out a fist and made a peculiar boast: "Tonight we are claiming victory." And he later added, "We're in it to stay...
...that it changed anything. This year, the Braves are the nation's number one scoring and rebounding team, and boast the top scoring margin and winning percentage of all Division 1 schools. And--get this--their coach says their real strength is team defense...
Some Westerners claim the ancient moral code of Islam, as practiced by the Amirs, rolls a boulder in the path of social progress and the rights of women. This is a vile allegation? Afghan women boast a rich and virtuous history. As long as there have been men in Afghanistan, there have been women. Of course, habiting with womenfolk is not always a blessed mixing. The illustrious and voluminous poet Khushal Khan Khattack expressed this love-hate relationship best in the 17th century...
...time for economists like Harberger to realize that economics cannot be looked at in a vaccum, and that what's best for the rich countries is by no means best for the poor. In addition, Harberger and his colleagues fail to take income distribution into account, and when they boast that there has been "growth" and "progress" in Chile, one cannot help wondering "growth" for whom? Though he tried to explain his shady links with the Chilean junta on Sunday, February 17th, at the Kennedy School, those of us present remained unconvinced...