Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aggie" Stigma...
...their paychecks. To avoid the company stamp, many a corporation works out ways to let employees finance their own programs. A sizable share of the money often comes from plant vending-machine profits (about $100,000 a year for the Convair Recreation Association). Another way to remove the stigma of paternalism is to let workers run the program. At Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. the employee recreation corporation has only three management members on the 15-man board...
Citation: "You have crowned your career by leading a group of able lawyers in eliciting from the Supreme Court of the United States a direct, unequivocal, sweeping and unanimous decision to remove the stigma and blight of segregation on account of race and color from American public education...
...lasted no more than twelve minutes, and there was no diplomatic glass of champagne afterwards. The French had long been unwilling to grant their Vietnamese subjects even this much independence; they had delayed the agreement right up to the Geneva Conference, when it finally became necessary to remove the stigma of "colonial war" from the Indo-China campaign. Then Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai, who has lifted do-nothingism into a career, had balked for three days on the grounds that the package would probably be undone at Geneva by the French. Despite last week's agreement...
...Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly the money stigma is removed. They realize it is costing you to devote time and energy to it, that you aren't trying to take anything from them...