One executive from a Fortune 500 company boasted of his participation in the Aspen Institute, an elite management society.

The same executive also boasted that the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration.

In fact, executives from the two companies separately and publicly boasted early Tuesday about their own company, while criticizing the other.

These days, America's chief executives are not boasting too much about their visions.

The executive then boasts about the location of his office ("I'm where Lucille Ball used to be"), only to find Steven no longer on his best behavior.

Yet Republicbank executives boasted that cost savings from the merger would easily overcome potential future problems.

An executive of the N.R.A. even boasted that it would work out of the White House if Mr. Bush were elected.

Before Enron collapsed in December, its executives had boasted that the company was the energy market-maker.

At technology conferences, Amazon's executives boast that the price wars and the lawsuits were two of the most important brand-building events in the company's short history.

At Saks Holdings' Saks Fifth Avenue, executives have been boasting about strong cashmere sales for weeks.