Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shoe commercial, with the line "I've got 10 fingers and no rings" almost takes pride in his lack of championships. That's pathetic--if he cared, he'd say no to some of the money and do what it takes to improve for the team's sake...
...them. For once they start--once secrecy lets fears fester so that accusation resonates, opposed only by pompous privilege--they fester into a boil unless they're lanced with Evidence. Evidence depends on Openness. Let them see where your heart is. Let us show them where it is, with pride in our judgements and in our ability to articulate them. This is the strategy for which the United States Supreme Court spoke when asked in 1994 to consider the issue of privilege and secrecy in university tenure processes, a strategy Harvard opposed before the Supreme Court and still continues...
When I asked my father about it, he told me that Black History Month is something like the lesser of two evils. Taking a month to instill pride by educating young black children about black heroes and black contributions to society is better than no month at all. I understand this reasoning, and I applaud the efforts of the black community to (once again) make something with almost nothing. If it weren't for Black History Month, there would be a lot more people thinking they know American history without knowing the names Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver or even...
...names will be different, but the story will be the same--40 minutes of healthy dislike and pride-filled basketball...
Everything in Paxon's history suggested that he would be a career politician. The son of a judge and a party activist, he was born and raised to take pride in his Republican heritage and his upstate New York State roots. Straight out of Canisius College in Buffalo in 1977, Paxon was elected to the Erie Country State Legislature at the tender age of 23. He quickly rose through the ranks of state politics, and in 1988 he won the seat of Jack Kemp, who ran unsuccessfully for President that year...