Word: esteeming
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...grant she founded CASA, a counseling center and maternity hospital. Today its staff of 100, including 60 peer counselors who distribute birth control to surrounding villages, serves 50,000 people a year. Says Goodman: "It's important that these women have access to family planning, can build self-esteem and get the care they deserve...
...opening of the Fourth Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, all eyes were on Leni Riefenstahl, 28, an actress to whom Hitler awarded exclusive rights to film the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin as part of a propaganda epic: "That Realmleader Hitler...holds [Riefenstahl] in high esteem...is apparent to everyone...At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Fuhrer Hitler and giving visitors...
Huang said he was particularly proud of his work organizing ten youth leadership conferences nationwide. He said the conferences, sponsored by the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts and the Organization of Chinese Americans, were designed to help build self-esteem among minority youth...
Well, sure. Something has happened to the American psyche, even in the highest tax brackets, that has given Detroit a jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf...
...memorial signifies the esteem of the community that erects it. It speaks to the moral character and most basic values of an institution such as ours. A memorial assigns honor. The question for our community, then, is whether we can consider those who fought to dismember the United States and to preserve the institution of human slavery as deserving of honor. The answer is that we can't, regardless of how revisionists attempt to dress our history up or down...