Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, the allies contend, it has been totally unclear who really has been in charge of formulating the Administration's approach to the Soviets: the generally cautious Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or the more hawkish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. This has prompted the West Germans to label the U.S. policy as one characterized by Wirrwarr or confusion. Concludes a top-ranking chancellery official in Bonn: "Carter's motives have been beyond question, as has been his integrity. It's been his lack of aptitude that has undermined his reliability...
...Ultra Sheen contained lye, which could burn the scalp and cause eye damage. Johnson claims that FTC officials assured him at the time that the other straighteners would also have to print a warning about lye on their packages. Yet for almost two years, while Ultra Sheen's label carried the notice, competitors like Revlon continued to market their "safe," "gentle" and "natural" products. Says Johnson bitterly: "The Revlon representatives said to customers, 'Look, the Government made Ultra Sheen put this warning on their jars because it's dangerous. Our product isn't dangerous...
...Preppie* label derives, of course, from the clothes in which young aspirants to the gentry are expected to show up at the better preparatory schools on either side of the Atlantic. The term, however, does little justice to the actual look, which, with imagination and some bullion, does anything but turn a woman into an honorable schoolboy. The clothes are neat, crisp, classic; with various permutations, they can be romantic and understatedly sexy. The time-honored Fair Isle sweater, for example, now comes in bright, balletic colors as well as the traditional pastel yellows and blues. Madras jackets and Bermuda...
...eight years in Massachusetts Hall, perhaps nothing has been attacked or scrutinized more than Bok's personal politics. Like his predecessor--who had come to be seen as the symbol of a tightlipped conservative institution which cared little for its students--Bok has increasingly come to symbolize what many label an increasingly amoral, conservative university. In the spring of 1978, when 3000 students marched in torchlight to demand Harvard's withdrawal from corporations doing business in South Africa, the crowd chanted, "Hey, hey, Derek Bok, Throw away your racist stock." The slogan, though rhetorical, aptly represented most students' perceptions: that...
...listen. And if anyone feels uncomfortable, embarrassed or hostile about attending a workshop or film, it's to be expected: at the moment people are given little other choice. But everyone does have the choice to overcome this awkwardness. They have the choice to realize that fear of (the label of) homosexuality stifles us all every day. It affects whether we wear boots or clogs, how we dance, and whom we dance with. It affected how we said good-bye to our best friends before leaving for college, and how we greeted our school friends after returning from Spring Break...