Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, the plan seems to have trivial implications. Litvak admits that there's a great deal of ego involved--a team's pride in being a part of the top college football division. Yet he calls the restructuring plan "stupid and offensive," explaining it implies that a commitment to college football means you have a big stadium and high attendance. "The plan does not ask for a measurement of commitment, it asks, does the market accept your product?" he explains...
...important to win this game after losing to Dartmouth, not only for our personal pride and confidence but also to gain a good seed in the regionals coming up," Seidler added...
...failed to meet his quota. Schreiber told the committee that the threat was not serious. Said he: "We're in the Marine Corps. That's the way we speak. We're not graduates of the College of the Immaculate Conception." With considerable pride, Schreiber reported that he managed to raise his staffs performance from 59% of its quota to 100% after he took charge in 1977. His reward: headquarters increased his quota by 13 percentage points...
...fault for black society's misery and poverty. To a rational human being, these statements sound absurd, yet you, Mr. Kilson, adhere to these beliefs faithfully. I would like to tell you that my Black brothers and sisters here at Harvard have done nothing but bolster my pride in our potential as a people, and in my potential as a Black individual. They have adopted me, instructed me, and cared for me ever since I've been at this college. So have some of my white brothers and sisters--yet, Mr. Kilson, my friendship with these white people...
...Lynds (he died in 1970, she is retired) found a work-oriented town where "getting on" was important, as were self-reliance, civic pride, patriotism and Christian fervor. So did the Middletown III researchers of today. Caplow and Teammate Howard Bahr of Brigham Young University asked Muncie high school students of 1977 the same public opinion questions the Lynds asked 1924 students, and got much the same answers. Last year 50% of the students agreed that "the Bible is a sufficient guide to all problems of modern life," 78% said the U.S. is "unquestionably the best country in the world...