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...their public image. But if they reduce their advertising profile too readily, their outlets for marketing could be extremely limited. In their defense, tobacco- and alcohol-industry groups contend that curbs on advertising violate their First Amendment rights to advertise products that are, after all, legal. "These warning-label bills are just another attempt to get around that," says Lauria, the Tobacco Institute spokesman...
...first in which I made initial judgments of people and situations on the basis of pigmentation. I am racist, I thought, but resolved never to say it aloud. After all, a Harvard student who abhors prejudice and fancies himself liberal and open-minded does not publicly label himself a racist...
...this name-calling can backfire, as these women--all too aware of what our society thinks of them--internalize the label and throw "bitch" back in our faces...
Today social and political integration remains fraught with ambiguity. Seen as a "model minority" rather than as a group of separate communities requiring specific kinds of help, Asian Americans are often shut out of affirmative-action programs. Asian Americans say the label is used to taunt blacks and Hispanics, that it implies, "The Asians have made it, so why can't you?" Says Reed Ueda, a Japanese-American professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts: "It's a way of manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans...
...toxic. That label, slapped on films by the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board, means that no one younger than 18 may be admitted. But the classification has other hazards. Most newspapers will not run ads for X-rated movies. Most pay-cable networks will not air them. And, because the letter has been appropriated by the porno industry, to many people X stands for sex -- impure and simple...