Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla.--Perhaps nothing left in our culture is sacred. Integrity. Authority. Justice. Respect. Compassion. Democracy. All of these once were held in high esteem by a majority of Americans, at least theoretically. But, today almost anyone with enough power and money can buy these items like plastic Buddha statues at a garage sale...
...unhappy to see Jeeves and Bertie Wooster get on a first-name basis. I don't even want to think about the possibility that Jeeves, given the new atmosphere, may feel it necessary to confess tearfully that beneath his awesomely capable exterior he often feels himself lacking in self-esteem...
...more competitive, hauls 630 million pieces of mail a day through snow, rain, heat and gloom of night with a savvy that has raised its on-time rate for first-class letters to a reliable 92%. Polls show that the Postal Service is rising steadily in the public's esteem. "The more a federal agency has to compete in the market, the more likely it is to behave in a responsive and customer-friendly manner," says David King, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who has been studying popular attitudes toward Washington...
...scene, after Melvin's inability to pay her a compliment has nearly destroyed her self-esteem, Simon gets a flicker of inspiration and draws her in the nude, boosting her confidence in her femininity. The attention the camera lavishes on her might seem excessive if her performance wasn't also so disarmingly real: Hunt makes it clear that gutsy Carol, after so much time spent worrying about her son and so many days serving lunch to Melvin, has earned these moments of beauty. Most important, she has an answer for most of Melvin's zingers--which might...
...Deep Blue The IBM supercomputer decisively crushed human world-chess champion Garry Kasparov, dealing a humiliating blow to the self-esteem of carbon-based life-forms. At least until backpedaling commentators recalled the obvious: hey, the human race did build the damn thing in the first place...