Word: esteeming
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...past three months the session has turned into an almost unmitigated Democratic disaster because of a crushing succession of failures to overturn presidential vetoes. Nonetheless, the party's congressional leaders believe that time yet remains to salvage enough of their program to retrieve their self-esteem and arrest President Gerald Ford's momentum before the presidential campaigns begin in earnest next year. As a first step, House Speaker Carl Albert planned to meet with House committee chairmen to set a new Democratic strategy for the rest of the session...
...energy conservation program as weak and ineffective but could not pass an adequate alternative of their own. Complained Democratic Representative Richard Boiling of Missouri: "We're looking like a bunch of idiots." Indeed, as public approval of Ford increased (to 55% in the latest Gallup poll), public esteem of Congress plummeted...
...Indian leader since her father, the late Jawaharlal Nehru. But there is no doubt that she is confronted with an increasingly restive populace that is angered by pervasive bureaucratic and governmental corruption and failing economic conditions. Since the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war, when Mrs. Gandhi's esteem was at its highest, India has been plagued by widespread drought and famine, coupled with the enormous blow its economy has suffered since oil prices were hiked in 1974. As a result, the price of food and other essential commodities has soared...
...nine most heavily populated counties decided to dramatize their demands by refusing to perform any but emergency services. Their action slowed admissions and operations in many hospitals to a near halt, inconvenienced thousands of patients who needed elective surgery and other nonemergency treatment, and further eroded the esteem in which Americans have traditionally held their physicians...
...both chambers of Congress permitted the whims of a few powerful committee chairmen to block almost any bill they wished. Crucial decision making was largely done in secret. The result was that Congress was notoriously slow to respond to a crisis or to the public will, and its esteem was low and slipping...