Word: prided
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...unless they are also made for French-speaking or Hebrew-speaking or Vietnamese-speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish at school and whose parents speak mostly Spanish at home will never really learn to compete in American society as a whole. Cultural pride notwithstanding, this could prove a-fatal handicap in a specialized, highly technological nation where language skills are more important than at any other time in history. What is more, the perpetuation of a large subculture with little or no skill in English could lead to something...
...current situation, inevitable as it may be, leaves me with the same queasy feeling as that last-second loss to Dartmouth (of all bogus teams) that put us out of the playoffs in '77, the same helplessness I felt while watching George and Jackie try to defend both Crimson pride and clean play against the whole B.U. team in last spring's donnybrook...
...Dantin's chances while still failing himself. This would hand the Senate spot to Cochran, who would then become the first Republican since Reconstruction to hold such a powerful political plum in Mississippi. Cochran resembles Dantin in many ways. Ideologically, the two are identical. Cochran, however, is the special pride and joy of Mississippi's powerful Country Club Set--a class of wealthy planters and businessmen who can usually fork out enough money to catapult their candidate to the top. Cochran served an impeccable term in Congress by conservative Mississippi standards: his ADA rating was a flat zero. His silver...
...Romanians accept a rigid party control and internal monopoly of power by Ceaucescu and his entourage including a fulsome personality cult) in return for a sense of national pride and independence unique in their history of foreign domination. The Russians put up with the luxury of a separate Romanian 'place in the sun', secure in the knowledge that no Prague spring of liberalisation will appear on the streets of Bucharest. With Ceaucescu playing the nationalism and religion cards so skillfully, dissident opposition is weak...
...thing at stake in today's game is professional pride. Restic and assistant coaches Bob Horan and George Clemens all at one time coached and Colgate and were neighbors in Hamilton...