The boat, called Route 66, cruised at more than 20 knots and frequently hit speeds in excess of 30 knots, or 55 kilometers an hour. (Note that America's Cup racers max out at 16 knots, and they're basically empty shells with nary a cushion to sit on.) Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
The Lower East Side once boasted 14 Yiddish theatres, with five on Second Avenue alone.
Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.
Borker has boasted about boosting his business with bad press.
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Then the mayor flew to Wall Street, which he boasted he would so impress with his forceful ideas that it would upgrade Miami's bond-rating from junk status. (It listened politely but remained unmoved.) It was then that a columnist, Carl Hiaasen, advised the mayor in the Miami Herald that, while in New York, he should visit Bellevue, an insane asylum of legend.
Kentucky, its roster spangled with high-school All-America players, boasted an offense that averaged nearly 78 points per game and a defense that set an NCAA record with 344 blocks.
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He boasted that the warmth of his ties with George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice and the other top policymakers in Washington, was unsurpassed in Israeli history.
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In March 2004 NIOC boasted about huge contracts it was signing with foreign companies to help meet its goal of increasing oil production by 25% by 2010.
Mr Farage boasted today that he is still in talks with two Conservative MPs who are thinking about defecting.
During Thursday's conference call, Brin was brimming with excitement about these projects and boasted about his success so far in keeping things under wraps.
China's Huawei had previously boasted having the biggest largest-screened 720p smartphone with its 6.1in Ascend Mate.
"It is a real Estonian smoke sauna with a sweet and juicy steam, " boasted local businessman Tarmo Tamm, who owns one of the sweltering saunas that dot the unusual competition and are a source of national pride.
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President Chavez was re-elected in October 2012 with 54% of the vote in an election that boasted an 81% turnout.
Mr. WANG: The combos nacionales never boasted a single signature sound in the same way we associate samba with Brazil or (unintelligible) with Cuba.
Shell boasted that 55% of its overall output would come from gas by 2012, with seven out of the eight projects completed by Exxon all coming from natural gas developments in 2010.
"It was when someone talked to me about Bugsy Malone that the idea lit up in my head, " he said, with a reference to Alan Parker's 1976 musical gangster film which boasted a cast of child actors.
When it launched with iOS 6 this Wednesday, Apple's Passbook mobile-ticketing feature boasted a handful of high-profile partners -- including Fandango, Live Nation, Lufthansa and Ticketmaster -- but that list still leaves plenty of room for fleshing out.
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Gordon Brown boasted of raising spending in real terms by 10% since Labour took power, in contrast with Tory cuts earlier.
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Fitzgerald boasted to friends in New York that he'd found a big house on the shore with a private beach, near the casino.
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JPMorgan Chase ( JPM - news - people ), for example, finished 2009 with a tier one capital ratio of 11.1%, a figure it boasted about in a press release.
The Chinese consumer fund boasted of a chief executive in its team who had promised to quit his job in industry and move with his family to China, where he would start up a rival to his current employer.
As Palin boasted of putting the big boys in their place, it looked increasingly likely that she would have to plead with them to return.
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