Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boesky and his wife took pride in their controlling interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though it was won in a bitter family struggle. Boesky's father-in-law had bought the hotel in the early 1950s and left 48% ownership to each of his daughters, Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. Muriel and Husband Burton ran the hotel until 1980, when the Boeskys managed to buy the remaining 4% stake from another relative...
...West European nations have so far contributed to the program. In addition, a number of countries in both the East and the West have been reluctant to participate, either because they did not think they had a serious AIDS problem or possibly out of a misplaced sense of national pride. But that reluctance is fast disappearing. At a WHO conference this month in the Congo, a number of African governments, alarmed at the enormity of the crisis, agreed for the first time to join...
...other qualities of the young men themselves make them difficult to employ." Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Place on the Corner, a 1978 study of the lost men of the ghetto, believes that out of a misplaced sense of pride, many black youths are unwilling to accept the low- paying, low-prestige jobs that their forebears held. "They puzzle the older generation," says Anderson, "who say, 'I was brought up to do any kind of work I could in order to survive.' These youths will not settle for menial labor...
...wanted him to read them and at the same time I didn't--an uneasy mix of pride and shyness that has never changed in me very much when someone asks to look. The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation...for me it always wants to be sex and always falls short--it's always that adolescent handjob in the bathroom with the door locked...Nowadays writing is my work and the pleasure has diminished a little, and more and more often that guilty masturbatory pleasure has become associated in my head with the coldly clinical...
...leave his apartment after a dispute with his roommate. "When I first got to the shelter," he said, "I wondered what I had gotten into. I had never been in anything like this -- the odor, the dirt, people all over the floor. Then I realized I had no choice." Pride prevents him from telling his mother in South Carolina about his situation. "I'm going to get back on my feet first." Rachel Hanson, 43, was a housewife in Anaheim, Calif., when her marriage of 19 years ended in divorce in 1985. With no skills and little savings, Hanson lost...