Word: prided
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...largest criminal syndicate, seemed motivated less by politics than by a petty personal grievance. He blamed a minor car accident on city construction work and wanted $17,000 in damages from the Nagasaki government. The result was absurd: an aging hoodlum gunning down a high-profile politician over pride and a virtual pittance, like some Japanese version of The Sopranos' griping mobster Paulie Walnuts...
...that the Ivy League title was essentially out of reach. But that didn’t seem to affect the Crimson’s level of play.“To a certain extent, it is personal,” sophomore Chris Clayton said. “There is pride on the line, regardless of the records.”With the end of his collegiate career in sight—and playing in his final match on Harvard’s courts—co-captain Gideon Valkin elevated his game even further, coasting to victories...
Getting sent to the Ad Board is a twisted mark of pride. You are a badass, perhaps an abuser of substances, possibly academically dishonest, and definitely not your typical Harvard nerd. Unless you’re me, that is, in which case the Ad Board officially admonishes you for failing to actually enroll in half of your classes for the spring semester...
Maybe producing pandas and then tossing them into the wild doesn't make sense. According to Jim Harkness, the former WWF chief in China, a range of factors drive the breeding program, notably "the myth that captive breeding will save the panda." The program is a source of national pride; plus there's the fuzzy economics: zoos donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S. four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears...
...their senior year. “I felt like I was very conservative in all of the things I did for the guide and Charlie had done all sorts of amazing things, like hang-gliding,” he said. “I feel a little bit of pride every time his name comes up” around Slate’s offices, Engber said. Sewell Chan ’98, a reporter for The New York Times and former Crimson news executive editor, remembered Savage as “incredibly courageous in many ways...