Word: prided
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...ideal for students who “want to look through more than one lens, and lenses that enhance what it is that they are investigating.” The trying process of successfully creating a concentration to focus on the intersection of two disciplines is a source of pride for special concentrators, according to Rich. After the extensive planning required to get through the ten-part application, the degree takes 14 half-courses to complete, and honors candidates must take 16 half-courses in addition to writing a thesis. Rich notes that the drive and independence of special concentrators...
...pride of Boston’s beer industry is walking on shards of glass, days after it issued a recall order on as much as a quarter of its bottled beer production. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. issued a recall earlier this week of faulty glass bottles containing their signature brand Samuel Adams beer. “It is roughly 25 percent of our total inventory,” said Seana Phillips of the company’s Investor Relations Office. “Our medical experts think that less than one percent of those bottles actually contain glass...
Grandpop took seriously his committeeman role. "I brought in the best division in the city," he would tell us, an insistent pride in his declaration. We grandkids would say that was chiefly because the old neighborhood had become almost entirely African American, already at that point the party's most reliable base. The exceptions were Grandpop and the guy next door, whom he described as "Nice fella ... Polish...
...counterfeit citizenship. Their interest is unsubstantiated by any connection to the team’s history and traditions, the source for both the richness as well as the baseness of Red Sox fan culture. Baseball requires patience, dedication, and commitment—all values that have lost their pride of place among most Harvard students, especially those who cheer...
...Those halcyon days of my sophomore year, replete with plastic gallon bottles of Cossack gin in the Junior Common Room, will soon go the way of Lobster Night, House pride, and Allston residents. In their stead, undergrads will get long nights of nursing Natty Ice and making awkward small talk with creepy graduate students—euphemistically styled “Beverage Authorization Teams”—who will soon be a mandatory part of every tea social on campus...