Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merton Olds, a Du Pont marketing manager with a Ph.D. in chemistry, and his wife Linda, a high school biology teacher. Noting the popularity of Trivial Pursuit, the black couple decided to devise a more educational game. Said Merton: "We wanted to invent something that would build black self-esteem." Their creation has 780 cards containing three questions each. Sample query: Name the most populous African country. Answer: Nigeria. The title Rise 'n fly comes from a type of winning hand...
...Democrats lost voter esteem on major economic and foreign policy issues...
...past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes from gamblers to fix the World Series, has the national pastime suffered such a loss of public esteem...
...Families of Dade County, Fla. "It's not just the idea of going out to have a drink. Now they are going out to get drunk." Linda Baron, a Miami drug-abuse specialist, says, "Sometimes we wonder which comes first: poor grades, poor relationships with families and low self-esteem, or teenage drinking problems...
Dual careers can aggravate marital rifts. Struggles over power, along with questions of dependency, self-esteem and trust, can emerge as critical issues. Partners may even judge themselves and each other by the values of the workplace. Explains Kitty La Perriere of New York, president of the American Family Therapy Association: "What matters is production, output, competition, excellence." Since men are still the principal wage earners in most families, the women usually take second billing. Arnold Medvene, a University of Maryland psychologist, recalls a woman whose writing career was becoming increasingly successful. But her husband, a high-ranking civilian employee...