Word: esteems
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...journey through her freshman year, not surprisingly, has its ups and downs. The ups include her stellar performance in a Neuroscience lecture that prompts a professor to praise her, which in turn prompts Charlotte to repeat, mantra-esque, the title of the novel in an annoying self-esteem boosting fashion. The downs involve her navigating the pitfalls of Dupont’s social scene, including a particularly harrowing libidinal run-in with Hoyt Thorpe, in which Wolfe uses words like “mons pubis” and “ball-peen hammer” to describe genitalia...
...nation). Or--very fashionable in Asia these days--you can look at the size of your tallest building, a contest in which Taiwan has just nosed ahead of Malaysia. Or you can dwell on the relative strength of your currency. Which is why you might expect American self-esteem to be in decline, for the dollar has fallen 24% against the euro since the beginning of 2003, touching a record low last week, and 15% against the Japanese yen. But the U.S. economy being a strange beast, few Americans have felt any impact from the dollar's fall...
...what we’re really going to miss is Jeff as a person,” he said. “He excited young people in the lab and he allowed them to grow. And in a world where people are not lacking in self-esteem, Jeff is a wonderfully grounded person...
...nation). Or-very fashionable in Asia these days-you can look at the size of your tallest building, a contest in which Taiwan has just nosed ahead of Malaysia. Or you can dwell on the relative strength of your currency. Which is why you might expect American self-esteem to be in decline, for the dollar has fallen 24% against the euro since the beginning of 2003, touching a record low last week, and 15% against the Japanese yen. But the U.S. economy being a strange beast, few Americans have felt any impact from the dollar's fall...
Moreover, having a cleaning lady—scratch that, cleaning person—in to fix all this would not only deflate my self-esteem, it would probably violate federal workplace regulations. Any halfway diligent cleaning employee would be quickly overcome by the sheer volume of dried, unidentifiable fluids coating my floor, leaving even more fluid behind as he or she wretched out the door. Actually, I doubt that. But still, I would hesitate to raise demand even higher with my hard-earned campus cash for what has to be the worst job in the world...