Word: brags
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...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...
...omitted that as a House member he was generally antiabortion, voting for a proposal that would have defined a fetus as a human life, which would have negated Roe v. Wade. As Vice President he can take pride in the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. But why brag that he was the "principal proponent" of it in Congress when, at most, he co-authored one extension...
Wellesley students also brag about their advising system--which includes academic, residential, career, and even psychological counseling. When students are admitted to the college they choose an academic adviser, who is a faculty member. Each advisor has no more than three first-year students, according to Craig N. Murphy, chair of Wellesly's political science department...
Quad residents often brag that the grass is greener and the air is cleaner on the northwestern extreme of campus. Maybe that's why houses in the neighborhood behind Pforzheimer House fetch prices well into the millions...