Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their hope was three-fold: to give children there the opportunity to play soccer and to have a safe sport area which would help bind the community together; to give a precious new possession to a run-down area; and to lift people's spirits and their pride in the community. They were slapped in the face...
...softening of rhetoric from his chief's talk the night before about "Cedras and his armed thugs." Talking to them even now, said senior Administration officials, is important domestically and internationally to show that they have not passed up a chance to resolve the situation peacefully out of foolish pride. Even though many Administration officials could not hide their optimism on Saturday, they all insisted Clinton might in the end have to order the first major military incursion of his presidency. It would come in defiance of intense public and congressional opposition that his Thursday night speech had only begun...
Maybe the new face is one that no one is paying enough attention to yet. Strategists who pride themselves on picking out the dark horses point to Governor Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, who is trying to rise to national prominence on the strength of his state's welfare experiments. Or Massachusetts Governor Weld, a political hybrid -- an economic conservative who is pro-choice and supports gay rights...
...diversity of the applicant pool may not increase greatly, but few could argue that adopting the common application would decrease diversity. We, both as a school and as individuals, pride ourselves on our efficiency; the switch makes the college application process a much more efficient, less time-consuming project for prospective first-years. Why should we require them to jump through another hoop just for the sake of "Harvard...
...Class Pride...