Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makers try to portray Republicans as incapable of compassion. Yet how compassionate is it to create a class of people who are dependent on government aid? What happens to self-respect and pride in oneself when circumstances dictated by the government virtually force you to live in a position only slightly above that of a beggar? This is not compassion; this is lunacy. We Republicans want to create an environment in which welfare is a way out of the cycle of poverty, not a one-way ticket to a life of dependency...
...Harvard player or fan not be proud of the way the team came back in the final 40 minutes, the way the team wore the Crimson jerseys with pride and almost won a game that most of the people in Boston Garden thought had no chance to win after the first period...
...Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. is certainly a breed apart. Down a country road 2 1/2 hours from the roar of Bangkok traffic, the private reserve is home to an eclectic collection of wallabies, deer, camels and 20,000 Asian crocodiles. But the budding zookeeper's pride--and the source of considerable controversy among conservationists around the world--is his menagerie of 35 hybrid Asian tigers. ``Some of these animals are becoming extinct, and I want to have a place where people can enjoy them,'' Somphong recently explained between bites of crocodile steak at the zoo's restaurant...
...millionaire many times over on Wall Street, in real estate and in the movie business--and built almost as great a reputation as a womanizer--Rose raised her children with a combination of strict discipline, inspirational instruction and Irish charm. They brought her an astounding mix of maternal pride and grief: the eldest daughter Rosemary was retarded and was institutionalized in 1941. Joe Jr. was killed in World War II. In 1948 daughter Kathleen died in a plane crash in southern France. Then the world mourned with Rose when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and again when...
...combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know Russia might believe that our military will accept the position of second best in the world. We seek to be equal to the strongest. Yeltsin has denied us our most precious professional feeling: a sense of pride in our own might. The military will never forgive him for that...