Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their pride and manufacturing prowess, the Japanese recognize that there are a few things that Americans know how to make best: hamburgers, soft drinks and, now, log cabins. Montana-based Alpine Log Homes, which has supplied handcrafted, custom-made log structures to U.S. national parks and forests for half a century, has agreed to sell $3 million worth of its products to a Japanese architectural firm, mainly for use in recreational areas. The bet is that Japanese vacationers, weary of crowded cities and suburbs, will enjoy a bit of Abe Lincoln-style living...
HAVING GONE, like a lot of Black Harvard students, to a private, mostly white school, my past experiences--and maybe the influence of 1970s pop psychology--inclined me to believe as a freshman that I could detach myself from the race issue through my positive self-image, pride in my background and determination to dismiss any affronts as testimony to the shortcomings of the perpetrator...
They gathered on the banks of the Thames River in Gales Ferry, Conn. dressed in a melange of garden party dresses, colorful Jams, L.L. Bean blucher mocasins and ancient rowing blazers with embroidered crests of crimson, gold and navy filigree, borne with the elegant pride of an era long gone...
...agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead traffic patterns as they unfold from coast to coast. Exclaimed the FAA's Richardson, with pardonable pride: "It's unbelievable...
...Cosmo's guiding light at 65, reportedly earns $500,000 a year, plus a slice of her magazine's profits. But middle-level staffers tend to earn less than their colleagues at other magazine-publishing companies, and turnover is high. Bennack and Gilbert Maurer, president of the magazine division, pride themselves on giving editors freedom in running their publications, though the absolute power is not always uplifting. "Working at Hearst is like life in the Medici Palace," observes a longtime Hearst executive. "All is favoritism...