Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally there are the Others--those who are "in trouble," as the euphemism goes, who must somehow be fitted in somewhere by somebody so the clubs can again point with pride to the precious statistic 100 percent--"100 percent of those wishing to join a club did so"--the number by which alone the system can be justified. It must be able to claim the fact of 100 percent no matter how often or how strangely 100 percent must be redefined...
...Bruno Bettelheim in The Informed Heart, a study of the concentration camps, described the power that the SS used on prisoners: "Childlike feelings of helplessness were created much more effectively by the constant threat of beatings than by actual torture. During a real beating one could, for example, take pride in suffering manfully, in not giving the foreman or the guard the satisfaction of groveling before him. No such emotional protection was possible against the mere threat." So, too, with the American slaves who often acquiesced in their own servitude because their imaginations were finely tuned and played upon. Perhaps...
...strive to improve relations and guarantee greater productivity in the workplace. Automobile workers are among the highest paid laborers in a nation which has a right to demand better performance and productivity standards than it now tolerates. Perhaps efforts to give workers more control over their workplace--thereby inciting pride and incentive--will provide improved productivity and accountability...
...tears were shed among San Antonio's Mexican Americans last week, they were tears of pride and joy. Cisneros, 33, defeated Steen, 59, a pillar of old San Antonio society...
attention to quality and name-brand identification. Says she: "We took sex out of the closet, put my name on it, and sold it openly and without apology. We take pride in what we're doing." Beate Uhse has become to German pornography what Colonel Sanders was to American fried chicken...