Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They had created a stigma about me," he says. "I escaped from the [mental institution]; they're so stupid...
...they cannot erase the stigma. Smoking is seen, and smelled, as an insult to civilization. It is also one of the few insults that civilization can forcefully address. The mannerly middle class may not be able to outlaw assault weapons or rap music or violent movies, but it can shove smokers (usually the working class, the minorities and the young) into the pariah class, right next to the serial killers...
Students living at 29 Garden Street already suffer from a kind of stigma; few Yardlings are willing to make the trek to visit their friends, and if we're with friends at night in the Yard, we have to worry seriously about getting home safely...
Steps must be taken immediately if we are to remove the stigma of being postally challenged from the Harvard experience. The situation is clearly out of hand when the U.S. Postal Service is being hailed as a model of speed and efficiency...
...Students in wheelchairs can now reach any room in the dorm," Parsons said. "This does away with some of the stigma that may have existed when only certain rooms were available...