Word: brags
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Teachers' salaries have never been anything for our society to brag about, but the financial sacrifices are bigger than many suspect. According to a study provided to TIME by the research firm Quality Education Data, a division of Scholastic, U.S. elementary school teachers spend more than $1 billion a year of their own money on supplies for their classrooms. The average teacher's personal contribution is a surprising $521 annually, 35% more than what the school provides them with to buy such things as paperbacks, software, instructional posters and art supplies. Teachers, with an average salary...
...hard to be a good host. You're supposed to ask how the guests' families are, offer them something to drink, commiserate about their long drive--but all you really want to do is show them what you've done to the den, bring out the wedding photos, brag about yourself just a little bit. And Americans are not, by nature, so good at suppressing their instincts--especially the talking-about-yourself one. So it was not surprising that we skipped the beverage offering at the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies and moved straight on to the bragging part...
...position, as a gas-station attendant in Far Rockaway, Queens, was 40 minutes from his home and paid $6 an hour. "I could just tell you a thousand stories in one minute," he said. "I can't even tell you how I feel. It's nothing to really brag about. But, hey, I am on cloud nine. I am going places. I am going to Disney World!" Sounding like he was accepting an Oscar, Sanders repeatedly credited Curtis & Associates, the job-training program that helped him land his new position...
...Green points to the pictures of his 26 children and five wives above the kitchen table and says, "That is my brag wall." At 52, Green is not ready to stop bragging. Three more children are on the way. A self-proclaimed "fundamentalist Mormon," Green lives with his extensive family in the remote desert of western Utah. He believes he is carrying out God's will with his polygamous lifestyle...
...allowed to see a lawyer, observed to The Post, “This is a good lesson about how frail our processes are... It’s how we treat people in difficult times like these that is the true test of the democracy and civil liberties that we brag so much about throughout the world...