Word: priding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pride and Prejudice (A&E) Having arrived just when it seemed Austen-mania could be borne no longer, this lush production radiantly revived the rage for Jane. With perfectly observed sets and a keen grasp of the subversive social themes that underlie Austen's comedy, this mini-series put its competition to shame. PBS' Moll Flanders...
...TIME's Peter Graff. Sources say that Mobutu has weeks, possibly months, to live, but if he has an agenda for his last days other than trying to fight off prostate cancer, he isn't saying. Government officials say Mobutu's return will revitalize the army and restore Zairian pride, and turn the tide against the rebellion in the east. Yet although the evening news Monday reported that rebel leader Laurent Kabila had been "trembling" since he heard of the President's return, Mobutu brings no army with him. The outgunned Zairian forces have been consistently beaten and humiliated...
...whom worked at the little plant, cranked out more than $85,000 in counterfeit notes, including $12,000 that landed in store tills. That may be one of the most backhanded endorsements for a copier yet. The feds won't say, but folks in Rochester, New York, might take pride in knowing that a J-school student who knows the shop identified the machine as a Kodak ColorEdge 1550+ Copier-Printer...
This is not to say that most people at Harvard don't have friends. In fact, for many of us, the friends who mean the most in our lives are right here on campus. But friendship is time-consuming and risky, and as people who pride ourselves on our self-sufficiency, we don't think that our friends really need us to look after them. We might even consider it patronizing or annoying if someone were to play parent with us and constantly ask us where we were going or what we're doing next...
...hated to leave behind. I even braved the mall the morning after Thanksgiving for the first time ever, and lasted close to three hours among throngs of family members whose Thanksgiving harmony had long since faded. My shopping is not anywhere near finished, but I feel a certain pride for coming back prepared...