Word: self-respect
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...bailout is expected to boost mo rale inside the bank, which has lost a host of key employees by resignation. Observed Stuart Greenbaum, a finance professor at Northwestern University: "The loss of self-respect and pride among people at the bank has been enormous." Now that a comeback could be under way, he adds, many employees will want to stick around and try to redeem their reputations along with that of the bank's. Continental may soon rekindle its archrivalry with crosstown competitor First Chicago...
...property, testify in court against her husband, sign a contract or keep her earnings. The tyrant responsible for her plight, according to the Declaration of Seneca Falls, was Man, who "has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...
...bowing to the party's majority sentiment. After winning four delegates in New Jersey, where he got 24% of the vote, and picking up 29 delegates in California, Jackson candidly assessed what Mondale and the convention planners must do to satisfy him. Said he: "The bottom line is my self-respect, and that's what they must come to grips with...
...Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? The only thing that makes this life worth living is some kind of moral self-respect, which in turn connects with what we believe...
...setup, which is ideal for the harasser who is so frequently given sole power over, for instance, a graduate student's dissertation grade or the rank of honors she will receive--but also, of the pressures which could lead stagnating middle-aged faculty members to try to restore their self-respect with sexual power-trips. Most daring and compelling of all, the authors cite psychological theories which postulate that much of an adult's self-image is formed in high school; they then extend that observation to point out that many men intelligent enough to have chosen academia...