Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistake to dismiss the concerns of the militias as paranoid. The mainstream media are so viscerally liberal that they do not understand the low esteem in which they are held by the people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court, activist federal judges and TIME all have a share in creating an environment in which the productive citizens of this country feel they have been forgotten by the government that is supposed to serve them...
...Pulitzer Prize winner, former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the individual who turned Cambridge Hospital's psychiatry department into one of the premier teaching institutions in the country, Mack has garnered high esteem for his work on topics ranging from nightmares and human conflict to teenage suicide...
...think that one of the things kids get out of good child care is a sense of confidence or self-esteem. It's a sense of the self that allows this kid to rise to the occasion," said Felton J. Earls, professor of human behavior and development at Harvard School of Public Health...
...this suggests the "cycle of dependency" that needs to be cured is not so much one of the dependency on government "handouts" as one of dependency on abusive men. Abuse, even of the verbal kind, saps self-esteem; physical abuse can imprison a woman at home, too ashamed to show up for work with a black eye or cigarette burns. No matter where they start out in the socioeconomic spectrum, victims of abuse are especially vulnerable to poverty and--to round out the cycle--poor women are especially vulnerable to abuse...
...mirage because it rests on a popularity that is broad but untested. Right now he is still the Desert Storm demigod, but once he has to answer attack ads and identify programs to ax, his stature will surely deflate. Even assuming he could survive this inevitable erosion of esteem to retain the margin of victory in November 1996, it's not easy to chart any route that would get him to the top of a national ticket-especially since he has declared, "There is no particular passion in me for politics...