Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pushed in." Once pushed, however, Shultz went in head over heels, particularly on the Middle East. He spent two weeks last spring in the region, mediating between Israel and Lebanon. Suddenly his stake in the success of the U.S. policy became a matter of personal pride...
...drunk driver, yet the administration prohibits the serving of alcohol at campus parties even to people of legal age. Increasingly, Harvard's social life is moving off campus to Cambridge bars, other colleges, finals clubs, and drunken drives to and from Kenmore Square. The deans seem to take great pride in making Harvard's campus the most boring in the Ivy League...
...past three months, ABC has aired clip after clip of the breathtaking sequence when Mike Eruzione netted the goal that hoisted the 1980 U.S. hockey team towards the gold at the Soviet Union's expense. Pamdemonium! National pride! Miracle on ice! Blah, blah, blah...will it happen again? became the inevitable supposition...
Congratulations to Chairman J. Peter Grace and his task force of corporate executives for pinpointing hundreds of examples of wasteful Government spending [Jan. 23]. Senators and Congressmen who are reluctant to comply with the solutions proposed by the Grace commission should swallow their home-town pride and consider the big picture...
...many advanced countries, nuclear power is a ticket to greater energy independence and national security. For developing countries, the sight of a mammoth reactor going up can also be a sign of industrial maturity and a source of national pride. To be sure, nuclear power faces the same obstacles abroad that it does in the U.S.: surging costs, construction snafus, protests from environmental groups, public jitters about safety, and problems with waste disposal. Moreover, the world economy is only beginning to recover from a recession that slashed demand for electricity and thus reduced the immediate need for atomic power...