Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IKEA angst of their yuppie superiors. Darwin would have had a field day-suddenly angst is an inheritable trait, passed on from one generation of the urbanite species to the next. Unlike their forefather-oppressors, however, the post-yuppies had no outlet for their angst. They couldn't claim a cultural disaffectedness of their own, as Seinfeld and thirtysomething had been there and done that, and made it clear that fin-de-sicle unhappiness on TV was for their generation only; TV twentysomethings were left to stake new claim in another territory, the frothy world of Friends. That's where...
...opting the silence of closeted people, moderately gay people and the poor Nike logo quotes a suicide note to suggest that queer visibility kills queers. Indeed, it isn't the threat of murder, disownment and discrimination in every walk of life that keeps people in the closet, the authors claim, but sexually explicit posters and publicly queer peers, making gays their own worst gaybashers...
...just started the job this fall. But the question is, will they stick around long enough to gain familiarity with students and their buildings? While most Harvard guards had been on the force for 10 years or more, only three of the SSI guards on the Longwood campus could claim that length of tenure. In fact, outsourcing encourages mobility. Because of the lower pay and smaller benefits, fewer guards see the job as a long-term occupation...
...claim of President Clinton and Attorney General Reno that for the last fifty years or so cigarette manufacturers have succesfully "hidden the truth" from the public is patently untrue. The president and the attorney general know that what they say is false, but they say it for political and legal reasons...
...Ironically, though, these students haven't even spoken, yet. They may not yet be ready to speak, yet we attempt to lure them out of the closet with posters that portray lesbian sex and read: "We don't enjoy cock at all." And then, to make matters worse, we claim to be speaking for them, to be representing those who cannot represent themselves. Such paternalism is, again, harmful; speaking for closeted students who are not yet prepared to speak is just as bad as stifling their speech in the first place. We are not helping them out of the closet...