Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts on weight during the three and a half years...
...Even in the face of America's many social, political and economic ills, I can feel nothing but pride and gratitude toward a nation that will enable my children's children to abandon earthly strife in search of better worlds. I am only sorry that the generation of men and women who are making interplanetary travel a reality will themselves be confined to the boundaries of Mother Earth, thanks to Father Time...
...possible that Kennedy, like Abe Fortas, had such pride of place that he thought he could ignore the buzz and emerge unscathed? Some did not doubt it for a minute. Others at least wondered if there was not, in fact, a peculiar Kennedy hubris...
...companies that venture abroad know that they must be ready to deal with all manner of complications involving local pride and pocketbooks.Still, there are few precedents for the problems faced by Arthur G. McKee & Co., a Cleveland engineering firm that does a $154 million-a-year business designing and building industrial plants around the world. Independence-minded employees of the company's subsidiary in Rome, Compagnia Tecnica Industrie Petroli (CTIP), are staging an outright corporate rebellion...
...Pride and Profit. TIME'S European Economic Correspondent Robert Ball has pieced together an explanation. Most of the gold, Ball reports, has been flown to Switzerland and bought by three banks: Credit Suisse, Union Bank and Swiss Bank Corp. Motivated by pride and profit, the three banks formed a syndicate a year ago and began to buy newly mined South African gold. They wanted Zurich to challenge London's position as the leading gold market, and they also figured to sell the gold at a lucrative markup. By carefully controlling their marketing practices, they could keep the free...