Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a jewel between snow-covered mountains and deep Pacific Ocean inlets, Vancouver, Canada's third largest city and site of the 1986 world's fair, has inspired great pride among its residents. Unfortunately, intense pride sometimes degenerates into parochialism -- or worse. A city alderman intervened recently to stop local merchants from selling T shirts with the slogan HONGCOUVER, B.C. '89. "When I go out I'm absolutely surrounded by Asiatics," complained longtime Vancouver resident John Smythe at a public hearing on immigration last month. "If the doors are wide open, what's going to happen to the Caucasians...
...disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways are such established carriers as National, Western, Pacific Southwest, Frontier, Ozark and Republic. Vanished too is a fleet of energetic upstarts, including People Express, Muse Air, New York Air, Pride Air, Jet America and Empire...
...Bush's advisers felt he had accomplished a major purpose of his visit: to shore up his crucial and complex relationship with his predecessor and, by extension, with Reagan's loyalists on the Republican right. As Bush jetted last week from Chicago to San Jose to Miami, pointing with pride to the accomplishments of his first 100 days, he and his aides stressed their "continuity" with Reagan and felt obliged to deny the obvious: embedded in their accomplishments are subtle but distinct breaks with Reagan and the right. Among them...
...country, which we've done to some degree in this job. You look down and just think about the wonder of our land, particularly after you've had visits from people from abroad. You think of the tremendous diversity of our country, its strength, its decency. It's a pride that you take every time. I do every time I go outside...
President Bush will be swallowing a little bit of that Eli pride today...