Word: overtness
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...fashioned" racism, which is overt andoften institutional, has largely vanished, Battssaid. But a subtler, and perhaps more insidious,form of discrimination has taken its place, shesaid...
Others believe those in the younger generation will catch on to feminism after a little reality therapy. "They don't recognize discrimination as undergraduates because it's so much less overt than in the outside world," says Patricia Ireland, 44, executive vice president of NOW in Washington. Many women do not see sexism as an obstacle until they are well along in their careers and angling for a promotion or until they have their first child and their juggling act begins. Observes Ireland: "Feminism is a movement where women get more radical as they get older...
...tobacco companies are finding new ways to get their names on the screen. Last week consumer-products giant Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker, for the first time broadcast commercials designed to boost its corporate image. The ad, a tribute to the Bill of Rights, makes no overt reference to smoking. Even so, the Philip Morris name is almost synonymous with cigarettes, which bring in about 65% of the company's total profits...
Margot and Howard Grim, a young couple who moved with three children from Sonoma County, Calif., to Woodinville, Wash., so they could afford to buy a house, say they have not encountered overt antagonism so much as occasional turns of a subtle cold shoulder. In their case it has been directed at their North Californian "alternative life-style" preferences such as Zen meditation and organic gardening. "Oh, you guys are so granola!" one staid neighbor told them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians...
Although there is no question that higher education prices are high--and similar from school to school--this is not necessarily a product of overt collusion. Schools could very well raise their prices to match those of other institutions without explicitly setting a price. In addition, there are many fixed costs that colleges must bear, such as competitive salaries for professors and making up for the appalling lack of federal funding for everything from financial aid to necessary research...