Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mubarak's moves indicate he has taken a sensitive reading of the public mind. For all his popularity in the West, Sadat did not enjoy great love and esteem at home. Many Egyptians felt that his regime was not only repressive but insensitive to their needs. Sadat's imperial lifestyle fueled intense resentment among a populace with a per capita income averaging only $469 a year. And his "open door" economic policy, intended to attract Western capital, served mainly to flood the country with luxury consumer goods and create a new class of millionaire middlemen and hustlers...
...state of abnormal emaciation, bulimia often afflicts women who appear healthy, radiant and at an ideal weight. Despite their differing approaches to weight loss, however, bulimics and anorectics are alike in a number of ways. Their inflated fear of fatness, distortion of true 'body image, and extremely low self-esteem lead them to manipulate their metabolisms and turn an innate self-disgust into a dangerous attack on their own bodies...
...federal employees were back at work. The bureaucrats who pay them computed that it would cost more to dock furloughed employees' pay than it would to meet their normal salaries. It was not clear what the fiasco had cost Congress in terms of its already low public esteem. The President's relations with Capitol Hill leaders, whom he had courted so effectively in the past with a soft sell, were surely damaged...
...point of folly on the battlefield, he initiated the tradition of Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel's triumphs and tragedies. No Israeli political figure soared to such heights of public esteem as did Dayan in the wake of Israel's blitzkrieg victory in the 1967 Six-Day War-or to such depths of public scorn, as he did after the nearly catastrophic October...
...morning of the first individual folly of the race, gossip has been the normal nattering background noise of civilization: Molly Goldberg at her kitchen window, Voltaire at the water cooler. To say that gossip has been much condemned is like saying that sex has sometimes been held in low esteem. It is true, but it misses some of the fun of the thing...