Word: esteemed
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...student run organization operating under the guidance of the Department of Athletics and the NCAA, gives all intercollegiate and intramural student athletes the opportunity to from one-on-one friendships with children from the Cambridge Community The program also seeks to provide positive role models improve the self esteem of junior high school aged youths...
...private pool. Cowgill, who urged John to call any time he needed to talk, got him a job as a telephone installer, the trade he practiced back home. "A job is so central to these survivors," she says, "because it gives meaning to their lives and self-esteem...
...Walker, the enemy is not The White Man: She is perceptive enough to identify cosmetic beauty as oppressive because of the impossible ideals we are told to reach for and admire. Physical beauty has become a commodity we can acquire but at the cost of our self-esteem...
There is far more to the fascination with Reagan than personal esteem for the President, who, polls show, would have won by more than 3 to 2 had last November's election been held in France. The sentiment has sprouted from a relatively new bedrock enthusiasm for the U.S. and its values. Long notorious for their anti-Americanism, the prickly French have become more glowingly pro- American than at any other time since the early 1950s...
...truth is that House incumbents are difficult to dislodge; normally 90% or more of them are reelected. The reason may be that while people generally hold Congress in low esteem, they often admire their own Representative. Norman Ornstein, a professor of government at Washington's Catholic University, notes that even in a year like this, when voters are pleased with the President, "they don't have the impulse to throw the bums out. They tend to re-elect the Government." In that sense, this year's mood of satisfaction paradoxically helped many Democratic incumbents as well...