Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nuns knew that many homeless women have trouble moving directly from a shelter into a place of their own, even if apartments are available -- and affordable. A few months on the streets can leave a person deeply alienated and frightened of returning to "normal" life. Through self-esteem seminars, employment training, drug counseling and other programs, women are prepared to return to the job market, retrieve children from foster care and set up homes...
...first responsibility of the university is unmistakably to Americans. Even Harvard's Department of English and American Literature and Language (department of literature written in English), recognizes its nationalist responsibilities in its nomenclature. But that recognition is nominal, for a disparate amount of its resources and its esteem lies in the study of British literature...
...couldn't live with myself supporting a team that blew leads on a regular basis and supplied the Cowboys with their only win. It was bad for my self-esteem. It was bad for my resume. Admitting to a medical school interviewer that I was a Redskins' fan, I reasoned, would be tantamount to stamping "LOSER" across my face...
What is needed, say advocates for the mentally ill, is comprehensive care, tailored to people's individual needs and aimed at building self-esteem and the skills to manage on their own. Numerous demonstration programs attest that the mentally disturbed can lead safe, productive and happy lives outside institutions. The key elements: monitored medication, specialized training and a stable and supportive environment in which to live...
...children who suffer the severest problems are those who are physically or sexually abused. Many lose all self-esteem and trust. Michele, 15, who is a manic-depressive and an alcoholic, is the child of an alcoholic father who left when she was two and a mother who took out her rage by beating Michele's younger sister. When Michele was 12, her mother remarried. Michele's new stepbrother promptly began molesting her. "So I molested my younger brother," confesses Michele. "I also hit him a lot. He was four. I was lost; I didn't know how to deal...