Word: esteeming
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Their self-esteem, for once, would soar...
Delci is a Mexican-American from a white neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas. He was actively recruited by Harvard. But that certainly didn't do wonders for his self-esteem...
...testimony was impassioned on both sides. Implant manufacturers brought out reams of safety-test data, claiming their products were essentially harmless. Some users spoke of gaining self-esteem by reshaping their bodies, and of a psychological boost in battles against breast cancer. But others told stories of pain from internal scar tissue, diseases they attributed to the implants, and deformities suffered when the prostheses ruptured or shifted. In the end, though, the panel voted unanimously to recommend that implants stay on the market, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler is expected to concur...
...course. Joe DiMaggio didn't have Pete Rose's problem. He could retire and move on to other things. But Rose didn't seem to have a differentiated ego. In other words, he didn't derive self-esteem from multiple sources. He was a ball-park rat. There may not have been anything else for him to do. People like Rose and Levine and Milken seem like fundamentally limited men. In the business world, look at Peter Lynch, who walked away from running Fidelity's Magellan fund with the express purpose of spending more time with his family and charities...
...people raised in that ethos are more susceptible to finding that they have to chronically manifest greater and greater levels of competency to feel psychologically secure. When the mere acquisition of money loses its significance, beating the system can become a convenient mechanism for recapturing one's self-esteem. Actually, if Dershowitz understood how truly desperate these men were to validate their sense of self-worth, he might use the success syndrome as a defense for Milken...