Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baptist minister's son from Ridgeland, S.C., trying to make good in the world of black storefront religion in Boston and New York. But in 1965, he adopted the style that was to set him apart. Instead of preaching humility and meekness, he began to preach a pride bordering on arrogance. "Say it after me," Ike tells his listeners. "All that God is, I am." He also stopped talking about hell. "I discovered after analyzing the whole thing that people are already in hell. They want some practical ways of getting out." So Ike invented the money rake...
EXCESSIVE PRIDE has kept many graduates from getting ordinary jobs. Rather than accept demeaning employment in business, government and communications they prefer to "work with their hands" as carpenters, silversmiths and farmers. In the past few years this trend has restricted the job market. But if the graduating seniors are less vainglorious, then they are more likely to accept humble executive positions, and their job opportunities are increased...
...team in the IAB Friday afternoon drilling them on defensive fundamentals. Springfield had only two decent ballplayers and the Crimson should never have allowed them to get so many points. Harrison (or one of his assistants if he is unable) must make the players get the same sense of pride from their defensive play as they do from their point totals. None of the Harvard forwards, including Tony Jenkins, could stop Springfield's Lewis. Unless more work is done in this area, the Crimson will be victimized all season...
Hobson, though, takes greater pride in his successful campaign to change downtown racial practices. "When I started out with picket lines in 1960," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Hathaway, "a black clerk was as rare as a white crow. Now they are all over the place." He pressured such giants as Safeway Stores and A&P into hiring blacks for the first time. When one leading auto dealer hired a black salesman, Hobson thanked the company by buying his first Ford there...
...Citroën difficulties do not mean that transnational alliances are bad. But the troubles do cast serious doubt on the concept of what Dunlop's Geddes calls "a marriage of equals." If the Europeans are to create many vigorous multinational companies, they will have to swallow nationalistic pride, aim for complete mergers and accept unified managements-like those of their American rivals...