Word: particularized
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Nancy Adler, a member of a special American Psychological Association panel on abortion, told legislators that after a review of the same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
...wish to refute specific misunderstandings and false statements that appeared in the editorial. First, we never sponsored the Wellesley College Blind Date Banquet. Second, the production of A Chorus Line, which was attacked as an "unnecessary networking of a particular minority," provided much needed opportunities for Asian Americans who seldom get the chance to act. Asians are usually typecast and, thus, never get parts in traditional plays. The production finally allowed them to express their dramatic and musical talents...
...Nikandrov said internal resistance to change remains formidable. Black marketeers and corrupt officials in particular threaten reform because they have no stake in an altered system, he added...
...particular, the senior-level editors could participate in a race awareness workshop, not unlike those in which many large corporations engage. Hopefully, this would broaden the editors' perception and interpretation of issues relating to minorities while helping them to distinguish between fact and racist, or "racially insensitive" fiction. To secure facts more adequately, an editorial liason position could be established to maintain communication with minority student groups, so that if an article such as Hsia's should come before the liason he would be able to edit it accordingly...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...