Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...priority of adult desires over children's needs. Her stepfather, a pillar of the community, started sexually molesting her. Susan reported the abuse, but she and her mother decided to drop the charges. Message to Susan from Mom: I'm willing to sacrifice you--your physical integrity, your self-esteem, if necessary even your life--in order to hold on to this...
...agents question his commitment, especially in light of his decision to rehire two leaders of the Waco raid fired last October after the Treasury Department's scathing "Blue Book" report blamed them for botching the action and later lying about why it had failed. The rehiring caused ATF self-esteem to droop yet again. "I've never been more ashamed of being an ATF agent than I am right now," an agent wrote in a recent letter to a magazine published by the agents' association. "This is an agency out of control...
...witty, you'll win fans. And shy people can relax a little. The network makes it easier to confess a crush or admit a grudge. The Internet offers a respite from the social ineptness of Harvard life. and it can lend people a modicum of self-confidence and self-esteem that's not easy to find around here...
Javier Romero "95 says his current feelings are summed up by a comic strip he recently saw: "An old white man asks this Black woman if it hurts her self-esteem to know that she got her job solely on the basis of her gender and race. She says no, and then asks him the same question...
...dead. There's a lack of images of successful Black people, or a lack of images entirely. You don't see Black people in story-books, or commercials," she continues. "Even at Harvard we're not isolated from racism--these things take a toll on your self-image, self-esteem, and confidence. Black people who make it often work even harder than white people who make it, and it's unfair to say we're not qualified...