Word: bravados
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...There is but one substitute for consumer confidence, and that is citizen bravado. And the way of economics is that it can breed its own rewards...
...Underneath the bravado, however, there is a growing fear that perhaps FORTUNE was prescient. Hong Kong is having trouble competing, not only with a rising China, but against a world built on brains, not asset trading. As the mainland maintains its rapid growth rates, Hong Kong is barely above water after three years of stagnation. To the question "Is Hong Kong dying?" a prominent barrister recently offered this reply, made only half in jest: "It is already dead...
...have a history, the San Francisco slugger and me. Years before he began his assault on Mark McGwire?s homerun record, Bonds broke my heart. Back in the early ?90s, he belied his bravado, choked stupendously during key playoff games, and left my beloved Pirates dangling just short of the World Series. Two years in a row I sat watching the hated Atlanta Braves play for the championship, gnashing my teeth and cursing Barry Bonds...
...bring down Nike-- unless Reebok has a lot of well-marketed attitude to go with them. He calls this "the Cool Factor"--the mysterious marketing mojo that powers the $11 billion athletic-footwear market. That's where Iverson comes in, with his tattoos, corn-rowed hair and 'hood bravado. Allen is indispensably cool, which is why, a few months ago, when Reebok was the object of shrill protests over the obviously homophobic, misogynist lyrics in the basketball star's debut rap song, Fireman stood by his man. "I didn't agree with the song," says Fireman, who conceived the Reebok...
...TIME. "I cannot ask myself to be complicit" in it. Several other female Benedictine monasteries added their support. Thirty-five of Mount St. Benedict's younger nuns pledged that if Chittister were punished, they wanted to share her penalty. Chittister flew to Dublin and in an act of nervous bravado told the crowd, "We're not going to let a little letter from Rome get us down." There were no ordinations...