Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have Palm Springs tans. They drive Cadillacs that pull into their parking spaces like a Thanksgiving Day parade of metal sharks. Who are they -- the Mob? More like the lost patrol. They are middle-aged men without women, salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support a family they rarely...
...technological damage that Lonetree and Bracy reportedly wrought will be extremely difficult to remedy. Repairing the damage that has been done to the pride and spirit of the Marine Corps could prove no less difficult...
...doing research on a kettle-cooked chip. Wise now offers New York Deli chips along the Eastern Seaboard and as far west as Dallas, packed in a passionate purple bag that bears no hint of Borden or Wise. With New York Deli, Wise is mining the regional pride and expectations New Yorkers have about deli products being made to order, according to Vice President Chris Abernathy. This is accomplished by using Wise fryers at different temperatures and for different periods of time. The result is a chip with a pleasant potato flavor and nutty overtones...
When Perle, 45, submitted his long-anticipated resignation last week, he cited with pride his having blocked "any arms-control agreement that harmed national security." Perle maintains that he has nothing against arms treaties, but he insists that "you have to be prepared to resist the temptation to sign bad ones." Despite his reputation, Perle was the author of the so-called zero-option proposal for eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, which has become the framework for current talks...
...grandfather didn't think so. He sent her to Baldwin-Wallace College, an obscure place of higher learning that lacked two things that Bowling Green could point to with pride: hockey and fruit files...