Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week The New York Times ran a voluminous, seven-day series of articles exploring the national trend of corporate downsizing. The Times spent pages and pages of print detailing the effect of corporate layoffs on America's standard of living, collective pride and economic morale. These articles left me considerably depressed. The American dream, it seemed, was breathing its last. Real wages have stagnated since the '70s, and high-paying white-collar jobs continue to disappear in times of recovery as well as recession. What it all seemed to boil down to is that children can no longer expect...
...College Pride of Springfield came out on fire. Before the match even began, the squad's rousing chants could be heard echoing through the halls. In contrast, the Crimson appeared to be flat and unemotional. But this lack of enthusiasm would not persist...
...lucrative but demeaning role in a big-budget film, while Vincent is about to make an independent documentary about a Japanese family during World War II. As if to emphasize his enlightenment, Gotanda even has Vincent come out in the play's last scene, adding sexual liberation to ethnic pride...
...through it a bit." Yet I do feel that Mr. Brown's accusations are not only offensive generalizations, but they are wrong. The Confederate flag is a flag of heritage. It represents to Southerners not only the undeniable shame of slavery we inherited from our forefathers, but also the pride in family, honor and state we recieved from their legacy. It serves to remind the South of the barbarity it has been capable of, of the tragedies it has overcome, and of the importance of the tradition of loyalty to family and state. --Andersen Fisher...
Still, the gossamer wedding, the fairy tale's foundation in reality, was a joyous event. Charles was happy because he thought he was pleasing his parents, particularly his father. Diana was happy because she had just received a buck-up note from Charles. He wrote of his pride in her and went on to give her some advice: "Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead...