Word: brags
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mortgage with your Grilled Stuft Burrito. The stock market may be dragging, but home prices are soaring, fueling a national obsession with real estate. Your house is now your piggy bank, ATM and 401(k). House gawking is a hobby; remodeling, both entertainment and an investment. Folks brag about having bought their home in the '90s the way they used to brag about having bought Microsoft in the '80s. Even if you're not contemplating buying or selling anytime soon, the amazing lift in home values is changing the way we think about the roofs over our heads. Real estate...
...adorned in hockey jerseys—trounced Northeastern in the final round of the 17-ounce burrito-eating relay race. Not only did the team—who resides in the fabled “Meatlocker” in the Pforzheimer House basement—give Harvard something to brag about with their burrito-eating talents, but they won an eight-day trip for four to Cancun, Mexico...
...Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, last week's annual Policy Address should have been an opportunity to brag. The economy has revived after seven lean years and the scary days of SARS. Millions of mainland tourists are streaming across the border. And prices for property, the economy's lifeblood, have zoomed up by more than 30% in the last year. Yet last week, Tung stood at the rostrum of the Legislative Council looking like he'd rather be in the dentist's chair. "We fell short of thinking what people think and addressing people's pressing needs...
...weaker spots, which are now more obvious," says Stacey Lynn Koerner, an executive vice president at ad buyer Initiative Media. "[The Apprentice] made executives more confident, and they didn't address the problem." Now if Zucker can work his magic one more time, he'll really have something to brag about. --Reported by Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles...
...conclusions be drawn from the cornucopia of slogans, signs, and silliness being sold to promote Presidential candidates? While the right likes to brag about its decisiveness, its manliness, and the fact that it is “always right”, the left likes to flaunt its intellectual superiority and is always ready for a crass sexual joke. The decision rests with the shoppers...