Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drugs have produced an alternative economy that can provide high wages and self-esteem to young men who cannot earn either in the mainstream. With the lack of role models in the ghetto, successful neighborhood drug dealers often become heroes to inner-city kids. "The males in the community who are law abiding and decent have less and less respect," says Anderson. "Today you find the hustlers out there taking time for young people." Many residents of Chicago's South Side last week grieved over the assassination of 49-year-old Willie ("Flukey") Stokes, a flamboyant drug dealer who enjoyed...
...abortion. "Apparently the programs are more effective at convincing teens to avoid birth than to avoid pregnancy," Weed wrote in the Journal. The point: teens tend to get pregnant not because of lack of information or birth-control devices but because of social and psychological factors, including low self- esteem, impulsiveness and a bleak economic future. In response, the Alan Guttmacher Institute charged that the Journal piece contained "numerous inaccuracies." The number of adolescent pregnancies has decreased for the past three years on record, 1980-83, said the institute, and the pregnancy rate has declined as well...
...heightened health consciousness. Physical health has become an end in itself, rather than a means to other personal goals, and living a meaningful life has been reduced to a health problem. Health is an imperative, a sort of super-value which stands for personal achievement, social esteem and strength of character...
...Guided imagery is a way to get the body relaxed and in the alpha state," says Moore, who has taught classes for six years. "There you have direct contact with the subconscious, and you can reprogram self-esteem and make positive choices. It is a way to communicate and to learn how to think about yourself. It's also appropriate to change things in the subconscious mind, since those images stay and affect conscious decisions...
...confidence in your objectivity, and my trust in your esteem for those who devote themselves to enhancing the opportunities of undergraduates, were shattered this morning...