Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stronger here, but he is no cinch on his own turf. Illinois is a tossup. Dick Daley's great Republican-grinding machine and Chicago's blacks are offset by conservative suburbanites and downstaters. Ohio is a toss-up too. So is Michigan, Ford's home state, where local pride may not be enough to overcome resentment over the recession. Bob Dole's Kansas seems as secure for Ford as Fritz Mondale's Minnesota seems safe for Carter. Ford also should carry Nebraska, but Iowa and the Dakotas are anybody's race. The President might score an upset in usually liberal...
...getting my feelings hurt. I'm better than I used to be, but if somebody knows a way to make it feel less painful I wish they'd tell me." She is also upset by her image as a homebody who defers to her husband. She takes pride, she insists, in speaking out on the issues, especially foreign policy."I don't make speeches," she says. "Giving speeches is the way you get out of discussing issues. I answer questions wherever...
Print journalists used to pride themselves on reporting the sober but important convention decisions that the restless television cameras ignored. They found precious little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...
...spiritual spheres have sprung out of the powerful and rich resources with which nature has endowed the United States of America, as well as from the diligent hands and the creative genius of the immigrants from many countries of other continents. That is why we too recall with pride many sons and daughters of Yugoslav descent who have contributed by their work to the development of America. These numerous Americans originating in Yugoslavia have been, and will remain a living link of friendship between Yugoslavia...
...wear. His men's clothes, which he designs himself, bring in more income-$45 million in U.S. sales alone -than his women's fashions. "I have more to defend in ready-to-wear," he says. "There is more competition there. I am more stimulated." He takes pride in the fact that each of the 58 products that bear his name, from sunglasses to soap and soon to cigarette lighters, has received his own scrutiny and approval...