Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revenues tripled, to $1 billion. Of those achievements, Keylor is proudest of the successful birth of PEOPLE, which now has a circulation of 2.3 million. Says he: "When we set out to launch PEOPLE nothing like it had ever been tried before. You get a much greater sense of pride when you're breaking new ground the whole...
...recognizing who one is and where one came from; about acknowledging that your tiles can fall off, that you cost too much, and that you travel with mixed motives. No other country in the world at this time could have produced the space shuttle, and there is short-term pride to be taken in that. But pride must survive the long haul too. Soon enough the U.S. will see just how far-or if-it can rise above its present limitations...
Looking back now as we prepare another step into space, the wonder is that there were ever doubts about this adventure. Our recovery and triumph in space run like a golden thread through the dark political years, often the only moments of success, a unifying voice of pride in a discordant era. God, but we were, and are, good...
Drew, like many of the present generation of New Yorker reporters, writes pile-on sentences that mock the magazine's pride in being well written...
...sales pitch, for he adds a few lines later that "during the accident at Three Mile Island, a hundred thousand people were almost exposed to excessive doses of radiation, because men in power within both the private and public sectors, through fear, greed or incompetence, put politics, economics or pride before the public health and safety." When Stephens asks, "Is there a repair for reckless self-interest?" the answer seems depressingly obvious...