Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arguments as "legal gobbledy-gook." Duke's rejection of the Freemen lessens the chance that their confrontation with federal agents will have the same impact on the militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched in to its eighth week. Dawson says that neither Gritz nor Duke were persuaded that the Freemen were negotiating in earnest...
...youth center, Barbosa says, helps students cope with problems of poor self-esteem, neglect and emotional or behavioral problems...
...life today by visiting the psychology section of any bookstore, he says. "On the one side, you've got books on how to raise achieving, successful children. And across from that, you've got books for adults on how to overcome your depression and increase your self-esteem...
...same time, Mansfield's conclusion that Harvard has bowed to "the ascendancy of self-esteem" (what his comrade-in-arms Allan Bloom once diagnosed as the "closing of the American mind"), overstates the extent to which diversity has forced Harvard to compromise its commitment to excellence. Even while placing a premium on diversity, Harvard's admissions standards remain the most competitive in the nation--for all of its students...
...would be pleasing to think that President Rudenstine wants to oppose this noxious trend and to replace diversity for the sake of self-esteem and group identity with diversity for excellence. That is what Harvard's tradition, properly understood, would endorse. But he simply does not discuss diversity as usually seen on the agenda of multiculturalism. He does not appreciate, or fears to say, that it takes an effort, indeed a battle, to recapture and restore diversity as an instrument of excellence. So he leaves it unclear whether Harvard's purpose is to educate blacks or represent them proportionately...