Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reason, being a native of Boston for the past 21 years makes me feel ordinary and even boring amidst my geographically diverse classmates who come from India, Turkey and Kalamazoo. However, the onset of fall each year transforms this shame into unabashed pride in my hometown. Boston in the fall is really the city at its best and also the ideal time to get to know it a little better...
...Monaghan returned to restructure the company and revive its fortunes. Domino's falling market share turned up again, and its worldwide sales have grown impressively--from $2.2 billion in 1993 to $3.2 billion last year. In his farewell letter to employees, Monaghan wrote--with perhaps a touch of pride--that the new owners of Domino's "are not buying a company in crisis, needing change to survive." Not at all. For years it was the flamboyant Monaghan himself who was in crisis, making his departure from Domino's only the latest in a string of soulful changes...
...legislature control over court decisions regarding marriage, foes of abortion rights could seek similar power on that issue. Polling has shown that if voters can be convinced that the amendment may lead to the end of abortion rights, they will be much less likely to support it. (Hawaii takes pride of place as the first state to legalize abortion...
...score? Because even after the Yanks won Games 4 and 5, their Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 hitters were batting a barely breathing .164 and the whole team was batting .198? Because had it not been for walks, errors and pitching, this essay would be about the pride of Cleveland? What, me worried...
...decorators make notes and exchange harried glances, but Wynn is already off, heading for his pride and joy, the Picasso restaurant. Today the Picassos--nine paintings, plus several dozen of the thousands of plates that the old demon gouged and scribbled into existence--are to be hung. The room is an expansive stage designer's version of a renovated Provencal farmhouse, only brand-new, and with touches not found on the Cote d'Azur, such as a carpet by Claude Picasso and a ceiling in the entrance hall thickly lined with broken amphorae brought in from Mexico. The paintings--still...