Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white campuses cannot match. "Psychologically, a black student is going to feel better about himself at a black college," says Barry Beckham, editor of The Black Student's Guide to Colleges. At schools such as Dillard, Fisk, Morehouse and Howard, black students say they feel a surge of self-esteem directly traceable to the experience of being the majority race on campus...
...those members of selection committee and you say the obvious to yourself. "That league is ruining the excitement, the attraction, the attendance, the magic, the esteem, no...the very essence of my baby which makes the NCAA tournament transcend life as we know...
...goal from saving Tower's nomination to tarring the Democrats with charges of character assassination and hypocrisy. Positioning themselves for the inevitable future battles over the budget and foreign policy, the Republicans hoped to rescue something from the wreckage of the Tower affair by lowering Congress in the public esteem...
While many waiters complain that the service charge robs them of the performance-based pay they deserve, supporters of the policy feel that a salary elevates servers to a more professional status. "Our waiters have higher self-esteem, since they are no longer dependent on handouts from persons to whom they must be obsequious," says Barry Wine, owner of Manhattan's ultrapricey Quilted Giraffe, where there is a service charge. But in the competitive restaurant business, few owners are likely to pick up a hot potato like the service charge until they are sure their rivals are going...
...people is still a mystery. Researchers know that some sufferers have an inherited physical susceptibility $ to alcoholism and perhaps to abuse of other substances as well. There may also be a psychological vulnerability. Experts dismiss the popular idea that there is a set of personality traits, say, low self-esteem and a streak of perfectionism, that puts people on the path to dependency. Explains Dr. Sheila Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class of junior high kids...