Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
Despite the lopsided statistics, the shabab boast of their accomplishments. "We've finally made the Israelis afraid of us," says an activist named Jamal, 21. His boyish face bespeaks both pride and intense anxiety. "You only die once," he says with some relief. Only once, like his friend Nadir Tayseer Abu Yasin, 14, who was "martyred" two days earlier. Jamal pulls out a photo of the dead boy taken moments after the shooting. "This is our fate...
...first anniversary, let alone a second. Israeli leaders insisted the rebellion would be quickly crushed. But a second year without a settlement pays credit to the Palestinians' remarkable endurance and ingenuity. Armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, Arab youths have managed to confound the Israeli army, regain their tattered pride, and remind the world that Israel's "enlightened" occupation is a painful contradiction in terms. Yet many Palestinians fear their revolution has stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much as an inch...
...pride argument is perverse," saidHarrison. "I dare you to find any case where thequalifications of a Black candidate have beenoverestimated...We take pride in, once given theopportunity, proving ourselves...
...devices. Behind every great robot, of course, there is a human -- in this case a worker who drops by once a week to replenish the stock and collect the receipts. And maybe, says Carroll, "clean the glass with a little Windex." Even a robot, after all, has pride...