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Nancy Snyder, a staff organizer at 9 to 5, says working for "rights and respect for the women office workers of Boston" is her organization's chief objective. She points to the low self-esteem O'Donnell felt in her job as one of the primary obstacles facing secretaries in their drive for recognition. "Women office workers felt they weren't being treated with respect on the job and that they weren't valued at their true worth to a company. They tended to be underpaid--not given opportunities for promotion or advancement--and had a lack of knowledge about...
...return the country quickly to civilian rule, as it did following the interventions of 1960 and 1971. The first military regime lasted 17 months, the second 30 months, but everybody agrees that Turkey is in worse shape this time. After the 1971 takeover, the junta sank rapidly in public esteem when it adopted brutal but effective tactics against leftist terrorists. Says a Western diplomat in Ankara: "The generals' dilemma is that, if they repeat the strong-arm tactics of 1971, they will lose the good will of the West, on which they depend. But if they...
...served in Congress for 25 years, gradually rising through the ranks and in the esteem of his Democratic colleagues. Now, bushy-browed Jim Wright of Texas is completing his second term as majority leader, and he yearns to follow in the footsteps of fellow Texan Sam Rayburn by becoming House Speaker when Tip O'Neill retires. Wright, 57, has tended his Fort Worth constituency in ways open only to a veteran Congressman. He claims his district has more defense contracts than any other in the country, including at least $18 billion for construction of 1,388 F-16 fighters...
...social worker, is on call 24 hours a day to give immediate, confidential counseling. Rape victims, Gould says, often tell her they feel numb, off-balanced and slightly paralyzed. "One use of counseling is to get people back to using their coping mechanisms and regaining their sense of self-esteem. How that happens is different with each woman," Gould says...
...Lippmann warned fellow journalists against "their need and their desire to be on good terms with the powerful," who were not only sources of news but dispensers of "many kinds of favor, privilege, honor and self-esteem." Later, embittered by L.B.J., he put it more succinctly: "I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, 'Put not your trust in princes...