Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe of today, a Radcliffe that is not concerned with undergraduates, the selection of Wilson as president makes perfect sense. The pride of Radcliffe is its research programs and facilities like the Bunting Institute, Murray Research Center and Schlesinger Library...
Meanwhile, some vintners are searching for distinction in a different way by assigning their top wines proprietary names (the Clos du Bois vineyard's Marlstone, for example). Despite Heitz's Napa Valley pride, his lush, minty Cabernet Sauvignons (typical price: $40) are best known by the names of two farms where the grapes are grown, Martha's Vineyard and Bella Oaks. But for many growers whose wines lack the cachet of Heitz's, new AVAs represent profits and prestige...
...American as apple pie. Or nearly so. Using U.S.-made supercomputers, two Columbia University mathematicians have established a new record: 480 million digits, a number that, if printed out linearly, would extend 600 miles. The feat was accomplished by David and Gregory Chudnovsky, Soviet emigre brothers who took jingoistic pride in beating the Japanese. "They may have faster supercomputers," says David Chudnovsky, "but they don't have our Yankee know...
Tarazi says he would not wear a pink triangle for gay rights to a Palestinian cultural event or a Palestinian kaffiyeh to a gay pride march. He seems to find it difficult enough to defend one controversial cause at a time, let alone to argue successfully for two very different causes with different constituencies...
...Macrene is a rare individual: scholar, humanitarian and linguist with a genuine pride in her family background," said Horner during the ceremony. "Not only has she demonstrated superior intelligence, as evidenced by her academic record and the comments from her professors, but she also possesses a compassion for people that has led her to choose a demanding career in medicine...