Word: priding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next Sunday morning, Bill Gates went into Stained-Glass Windows, and the Scripture reading was a screechy passage from Jeremiah, and the sermon was very antimoney, antigrowth, antientrepreneurship, and it scrolled on for hours; and when the Confession window opened, Bill clicked twice on the Pride icon and then Continue and saw This program has performed an immoral function and will be shut down, and in that moment he went blind...
...generation of politicians. Thaci, 30, is a typical example. Journalists who met him in his early days thought little of his triumphalist talk or his childish nom de guerre "Snake." And though the guerrillas' military performance in the war was weak, the K.L.A. has been a bastion of Albanian pride. Cast with a patriotic glow, Thaci has quickly become a serious political player...
...through a lot in my time, and I consider myself to be a patient man, but I know I couldn't have done what Jackie did. I don't think anybody else could have done it. Somehow, though, Jackie had the strength to suppress his instincts, to sacrifice his pride for his people's. It was an incredible act of selflessness that brought the races closer together than ever before and shaped the dreams of an entire generation...
...great private hoards. "I never felt the Great Depression firsthand," Senator Kennedy said as he campaigned in 1960. "I learned about it at Harvard." By then, the moneymaking was clearly of secondary importance in the Kennedy ambitions. "None of my children give a damn about business," Joe said with pride. "The only thing that matters is family. I tell them that when they end this life, if they can count their friends on one hand, they will be lucky. Stick with family...
...looks like the space race all over again -- and just like the Sputnik beat the United States into orbit, the Russians got into Kosovo before anyone from the West. And that?ll be a blow to a lot more than just NATO?s pride, because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings...