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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that you've garnered so much esteem from your peers and coaches...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Jim Garvey | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

...HISTORIANS WHO MAKE a habit of ranking American Presidents are not going to treat Jimmy Carter well. Under the Georgian's stewardship, the U.S. economy went to pot, the nation's self esteem was punctured by repeated humiliations abroad, and--for the first time since George Washington romped on General Cornwallis at Yorktown--the world laughed at America...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Carter and the Politics of Faith | 11/12/1982 | See Source »

Colantuono and others who struggled for change in the previous student government feel a particular urgency for results. To erase memories of the assembly's notorious inefficiency, Colantuono sees the need for a council which first establishes a tradition of profesionalism and gains self-esteem. Substance-less meetings which are deftly run will not indefinitely better the council. But there is now a sense of positive momentum where for years there has been farcical stagnation...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: An Auspicious Beginning | 11/3/1982 | See Source »

Some aspects of Newsweek's agenda show little sensitivity to how the proposals will affect workers personally. The employee whose salary decreases as a result of a minimum wage reduction, for instance, would suffer an incalculable loss of self-esteem, knowing his employer measures his worth in terms of the legally allowable minimum. Imagine, too, the feelings of those employed in the Works Progress Administration who, under the Newsweek plan, would work to repair the American infrastructure of highways, bridges, sewers, ports and dams that support the nation's commerce. Presumably by threatening to deny unemployment benefits, the government would...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: Newsweek Economics | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Ever since Israel's birth as a nation in 1948, the Israel Defense Forces have enjoyed a position of uncommon esteem both in the country and beyond. David Ben-Gurion once remarked that the I.D.F. was perhaps his nation's most successful achievement. The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies this year rated the Israeli military as the fourth most powerful in the world. Yet today, in the wake of the Beirut massacre, many among the I.D.F.'s 172,000 regulars and 504,000 reservists are deeply demoralized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharon vs. the Army | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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