"I don't want to toot our horn, " says Thomas Hughes , head of diabetes and metabolism research at Novartis.

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"We don't like to toot our own horn so we don't, " Palin said.

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To toot the horn for software, it employs twice as many people as the recreational, cultural and sporting sectors combined.

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Mr. AMOSS: It's preposterous to say that this was unforeseeable, but not to toot our horn too much but we, for one, foresaw it.

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But refusing to toot your own horn when the right opportunity or need arises can do yourself a big disservice, keeping you from enlisting the support of key decision makers and people well-positioned to help you.

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Use awareness of masculine and feminine differences to coach women to speak up, toot their own horns and ask for challenging opportunities and to coach men to respect these behaviors in women as well as men.

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As hinted by the self-centered name, the Egoista Concept is built to let the company toot its own horn, and won't be sold -- anyone who gets a test drive will be part of a very exclusive (and likely ecstatic) club, as you might gather from the video after the break.

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Each suite is stocked with a queen bed and full kitchen for cooking late-night fuel, and escapees will toot their horn to the sound of complimentary parking and wi-fi.

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After a while, your thoughts will drift off to the unused siding where the old tall weeds are, and the string of curving words will toot a mournful toot and pull ahead.

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