Word: prided
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...Such newfound national pride is shared by many of the Chinese university students now flocking to Japan. While Tiananmen-generation scholars went as penniless scholarship recipients, the latest arrivals were raised in Chinese cities whose skyscrapers and Internet cafés aren't so different from Tokyo's. They are not looking for political or economic refuge. Le Yiping is a polished 25-year-old studying transportation and logistics at the University of Tokyo, one of Japan's premier colleges. "I plan to go back to China after graduation because the business opportunities there are very good," she says - though...
...harvest will be as big as 68,000 tons, with exports rising to as much as 3,000 tons. "The demand we're seeing has been incredible," he told me by phone from Kabul. "And this is a licit agricultural product ? something that there's a lot of pride...
...Fifteen Minutes (FM): Congressman, you lived in Winthrop House while you attended Harvard. Why are you eating in Eliot House tonight? Where’s the house pride...
...Alright, so I’m a native Jersey Girl, and I know you’re a Jersey native too. But you decided to become a congressman for Massachusetts. Any Jersey pride left? Or do you say you’re from “outside New York?...
...contributors to Harvard’s many fund-raising appeals over the years, we have taken pride in the University’s standing as the best endowed institution of higher learning in the world, with a reported net worth of $36 billion dollars. We would expect that this wealth frees the University, and certainly the College at its core, from the need to pander to the prevailing political moods in the USA and enables it to fulfill its calling as one of the more active participants of the global pluralistic society...