Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wheelchair access, which is required in all new construction by the 1991 Americans With Disabilities Act, is important to reducing some of the stigma associated with being handicapped at Harvard, Parsons says...
...celebrities -- certifiable ones, as well as members of the over-the- hill gang -- struggling less and less with the stigma of selling? While stars like Laurence Olivier and Candice Bergen have always fronted for high- profile products (and others, like Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon, do uncredited voice-overs on commercials), a growing number of celebrities are entering the traditionally shadowy universe of direct marketing. "More so than ever, we have clients coming to us saying, 'I want to do an infomercial. Find me the right one,' " claims Rick Bradley, a talent representative at the William Morris Agency who pairs...
...last 20 years, American foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...
Another sponsor, Martha E. Fish, said she saw the event as an opportunity to break down the stigma associated with homosexuals...
...Vegans have been living under the stigma of Sin City for so long that we are desperate to prove that this is a very conservative, God-fearing, average American community that just happens to have gambling," explains Under Sheriff Eric Cooper, who along with his boss, Sheriff John Moran, has been waging a 10-year antivice campaign. "The best thing that ever happened was when the Baptists had their convention here four years ago." The category of "Escort Services" is no longer listed in the local Yellow Pages...