Word: esteem
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...Paltz, N.Y. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later, he was disturbed by his "hate" for his rival. After retiring, he grew easier on himself. When a reporter said...
Citing Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson, Gardner, who is the Hobbs professor of cognition and education said, “in the area of scholarship, the thing that’s most precious is the esteem of your peers, and I’m very honored and humbled that people of the stature of the American Philosophical Society have chosen to select me to their ranks...
...century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad...
...century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad
...that I’ve had my transplant, my body actually does what I want it to,” said 16-year-old Kaitlyn McNamara to US News Today, one of recipients of a new bladder. “It kind of boosted my self-esteem.” Atala said that as this technique matures and becomes more mainstream, other organs such as hearts, livers, kidneys, pancreases can be laboratory-grown. “This suggests that tissue engineering may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants...