Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical innovation in the Harvard pressbox which makes Cavileer beam with pride is the two-colored play-by-play sheets produce right after each quarter. Cavileer and Wood had to go down to the A.B. Dick Company headquarters to consult on a way of producing two colors on one carbon. "It was a great undertaking," Cavileer recalls solemnly, "No other school does it. Princeton tried to do it a couple of years ago and failed. The difference is in having people who are really interested in their work...
...pride and joy of Stoughton Hall, freshman Mary started in 1975 at right wing for the 2-10-3 unit under rookie coach Debi Field. She had to beat out a senior letterwinner to get the nod, but it was far from wine and roses for the talented towhead...
...neglected to stress the cult of machismo as one of the biggest drawbacks impeding the advancement of our people. Its evil locks men into self-styled pride, exploits and subjugates women and lures youth into the self-destructive violence of gangs. Eradicate machismo from latino culture and la raza will flourish as never before; mujeres and hombres alike will then move forward in equality...
While wage and price guidelines attracted the most attention, Carter was well aware of the complaint by businessmen and some economists that the Federal Government is the biggest single contributor to inflation. With pride, he pointed out that his Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan...
...crop until then, or only 60% of it? To complicate matters further, a farmer can work out deals to sell part of his crop in October, say, but get the cash next January if that would be better for tax purposes. All of which should stir pride in the ghost of William Jennings Bryan, who insisted in his 1896 cross-of-gold speech that "the farmer ... is as much a businessman as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain...