He points to investment in housing and brags about 11 years of falling crime rates.
Nobody I know brags about their stock market killing or the escalating value of their real estate.
"We approach stories the way a trial lawyer approaches a trial, " brags Sitrick, author of autobiography Spin.
Fox brags that it is a Top 15 show this fall among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34.
We need not totally discard old-school pick-up lines for new humble brags about Klout scores and Twitter prowess.
Port Lincoln's mayor, Peter Davis, brags that it's the seafood capital of Australia.
"I made Dow Corning go bankrupt, " he brags in a thick Texas drawl.
By contrast, George W. Bush brags about never even reading a daily newspaper.
But, Olmert brags, he wrecked her plan by getting outgoing President George W. Bush to force her to abstain.
Her parents can tell from the way she brags about being a member that it's made a world of difference.
Groupon brags about how many writers they have on staff, and how they let them write pretty much whatever they want.
He flirts, brags endlessly about the Utah Jazz, fights Jesse Helms on his anti-aids legislation and is pals with Ted Kennedy.
He brags to a FORBES reporter how he swiped the Home Depot riding mower account from a subsidiary of Tomkins Plc.
So GE brags about the terabyte of data that flows out of a single jet engine on a single cross-country flight.
"I've got one guy--he was number one in the country in both math and physics in the same year, " Simonyi brags.
Although Apple brags about its leading status for public consumption (which is good for the brand), it remains wary of overconfidence internally.
"There's no genetic operation that can compete with us now, " he brags.
"I am a bounty hunter, but that's exactly what the law allows, " brags Mehrban, attired in a T shirt, running pants and sneakers.
Despite all that, Sharp brags, the set is less than 5 inches thick and weighs 141 pounds (considerably less than an NBA forward).
Subscribers number more than 100, 000, and Beauchamp brags of a 20% monthly rate of growth in the past year, most garnered strictly by word-of-mouth advertising.
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LatinWE brags more than 25 clients in its talent management division.
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Dole was founded in Hawaii in 1851, according to the company's website, which brags of being the "world's largest producer and marketer" of fruits and vegetables.
At South By Southwest, which starts Friday, Women 2.0 is hosting a special edition of its Founder Friday series that brags more than 100 founders on the guest list.
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Kim Williams, the Australian chief executive of the studio, brags that Australia will emerge early in the next century as the main base outside the United States for the production of English language films.
The leading executive of a public-private housing finance institution who brags to me that she got out just in time without being stained by the crisis, her extraordinary small fortune intact.
In the film itself, Attorney Donziger brags of his ex parte contacts with the Ecuadorian judge, confessing that he would never be allowed to do such things in the United States, but, in Ecuador, everyone plays dirty.
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Even while Governor Brown brags of a balanced budget, he ignores the off-budget pension fund deficit which threatens loss of government services and closure of parks and libraries, prompts municipal bankruptcies, and keeps the state deeply in debt.
Senator Johnson might wish to think about what efforts would have been made to save a baby such as his had she been born to a family without health insurance and with little opportunity to reach those top notch surgeons the senator brags about in his op-ed piece.
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