Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer industry has been a source of profound national pride in recent years. While other parts of the economy have sagged, computer makers have maintained the tradition of American ingenuity and skill. But last week even they seemed badly shaken. Buffeted by plummeting profits, slow sales and excess capacity, the industry resembled a sophisticated data processor suddenly gone awry...
Nadkarni became president of Winthrop's House committee, as well as House athletic secretary. He takes credit for helping create Winthrop's campas reputation as a "high school house" fraught with enthusiasm and spirit. Many Harvard students look cynically on this environment, but Nadkarni expresses pride, seeing his role as "psyching people...
...austerity prescriptions even from a member of Thatcher's Cabinet. Energy Minister Peter Walker, a moderate who is a contender to succeed Thatcher, advocated drastic action to combat the 13.5% unemployment rate. Until recently, Britain's low inflation index had been one of the government's points of pride; last week the rate stood at 6.9%, up from 5.1% a year ago and the highest since...
Jubilant and eclectic, yet a little ragged with the tatterdemalion feel of a county fair, Viet Nam's show of national pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet...
...answer this Reagan must look beyond the feeble facade of German nationalism and pride. Reagan must look deep into wartime Germany, when roving bands of Nazi thugs terrorized Jewish neighborhoods. He must look into the ovens of Auschwitz and see the baked forms of Jews. He must go see the German government-sponsored labs of Josel Mengele, where Jews were used as experimental animals, frozen to death, put in high pressure chambers, injected with viruses. Reagan must wear Nazi gloves made from the skin of Jews, feel cloth woven from their hair. He must see the gas chambers, and lastly...