Word: esteem
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After extending their reach from only a few thousand Americans 30 years ago to about 20 million today, employee-ownership plans have fallen in public esteem. The allure of stock options has faded along with the dotcoms that made them sexy. Enron's collapse has shown the danger of workers' betting their retirement savings on their employer's stock. And tension between unions and management at struggling United Airlines has called into question what anyone gained when workers bought a majority of shares in the company eight years ago. Worried, Congress is weighing bills that would limit how companies...
...emphasizes that while his relationship with that girl was one catalyst in his conversion to Christianity later that year, it wasn’t that simple. A rough final year of high school, which he says was characterized by “self-degradation, bad feelings and low self-esteem,” had culminated in suicidal tendencies. “I had the knife out and on my wrist,” he says...
...hopeful each time, because for nearly two decades Oprah has brought us nothing but pain and heartache. Oprah is the opiate of the female masses, teaching them to build self-esteem by confronting the past and setting goals instead of feeling good the old-fashioned way: by having casual sex. She encourages women to look inside and "find their passion" without once entertaining the possibility that this passion might be fed with lots of sleeping around. Worse yet, she sets all these ridiculous expectations about reading once a month...
Despite all the good things she may do for women's self-esteem, men can't help feeling about Oprah the same way that gold investors felt about William Jennings Bryan. She's just not looking out for our best interests. The only men who will suffer from Oprah not being on the air are Wally Lamb and Stedman Graham...
...Despite all the good things she may do for women's self-esteem, men can't help feeling about Oprah the same way that gold investors felt about William Jennings Bryan. She's just not looking out for our best interests. The only men who will suffer from Oprah not being on the air are Wally Lamb and Stedman Graham...