Word: prided
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...their drive to restore Russia's Soviet-era muscle, Vladimir Putin and his allies have plenty to build on: fabulous petroleum wealth, ironclad political stability and an increasingly confident foreign policy. Will national pride get an extra boost from the country's footballers? Can they join the phalanx of Russian hockey and tennis stars who are earning the nation some international respect...
Graduation day is made for pride and prizes and unsolicited advice that will be lost in the fizz of the moment and recycled years later. I figure that by the time my girls are done with college--or maybe even high school--it will be way too late to make an impression on them. But my youngest girl's class's upcoming Fourth Grade Recognition Day, the end of lower school, the lip of higher learning, is a chance to catch her on her way and hand her a compass...
...pieces of information given in a job description is whether or not the campus recruiter is a Harvard alum. It is apparent that the alumni network is a market place where alumni provide opportunities and guidance, and students provide an opportunity for alumni to feel nostalgic and take pride in giving back...
...expected when I went out to feel embarrassed for Harvard in terms of what it does in the arts, for the arts, versus what other institutions do,” Megan said. “What I felt, in fact, was enormous pride with what our students do, but an enormous gap with what Harvard can do to support them...
...common thread running through these proposals is work. In America, it's supposed to be enough. Most of the people I've met don?t need an economist to tell them that hard work isn't paying these days. You see it in their faces: the pride that comes from work and that panic about what tomorrow might bring...