Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dawn Euton had cancer a long time ago -- 27 years ago, to be exact. As a four-year-old she was treated for Wilms' tumor, a malignancy of the kidney. Though the disease never returned, the fear and stigma have not gone away. In high school her classmates acted as if they were scared to be near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman...
...Wasinger insists that AALARM's main goal is not to ease the stigma for moderate conservatives but rather to pursue its own extreme agenda...
...stigma of this image has lessened in recent years, the Republicans have grown to "two or three times larger than the [Harvard- Radcliffe] Democrats," says Michael...
...protect the children from the stigma of being branded as criminals, the proceedings of juvenile courts are hidden behind a veil of confidentiality. In an effort to show the strains on the system, a group of TIME correspondents was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore court. The identities of the children and their parents have been changed, but the stories are true, and they are typical...
...Serial Killer and The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover. After much debate, and the likelihood that a major-studio film (Universal's Henry & June) would get an X, the film industry's rating board altered the label to NC-17. The idea was to remove the stigma of pornography that the X rating bore and allow serious filmmakers to explore provocative styles without worrying that the parents of a 14-year-old might be offended...