Word: label
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...impossible anywhere, let alone in a country where the police can be inept and corrupt. Add in a world press that's only too ready to confirm the unimaginative (and mistaken) view that Africa only produces bad news and all it will take for, say, the British press to label the World Cup a catastrophe is for a couple of drunken England fans to stumble into the wrong part of town. (See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...
Both studies add to a larger body of research that suggests that meeting people where they are - both physically and emotionally - can be less intimidating than requiring them to seek formal treatment that involves a diagnosis and a possibly stigmatizing label. "When you label people, when you tell them what to do and are confrontational, it basically raises a brick wall," says Hester. In fact, some studies have shown that the more counselors confront clients, the more the clients drink or take other drugs...
...listed on the menu as containing 500 calories, you jolly well expect 500. But you may be getting a lot more than that. The same may be true of the omelet and the pasta you get at a sit-down restaurant - and of the frozen dinner with the label you read so carefully before you tossed it in your supermarket basket and took it home. (See the 10 worst fast-food meals...
FlyBy was immediately labeled upon entering—yellow, for Finance—and would pay a hefty price for it. DC politicos, environmental engineers, TFA groupies, and a tax lawyer wanted no part of the economic-turn-finance kid. One even tossed out the dreaded Goldman Sachs label while they all teamed to close off the circle...