Word: stigma
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...though there was some stigma about it, the Radcliffe graduate was saying. And yet wherever she goes these days, people give her a funny stare and say something like, "Are you still here...
...looking for a steady job, but like many who stay in Cambridge, she isn't bothered too much by meager job prospects. She's bothered by something else: the stigma, the funny stares, the unspoken notion that Harvard graduates should get out of town after Commencement, that they don't belong here...
There is a pressing point to that appeal for more immigrants. Israeli officials are troubled about a continuing exodus from the Jewish state. Precise statistics are hard to come by because the stigma attached to emigration is so great that few Israelis who leave the country for good ever declare their intentions officially. Nonetheless, government officials estimate that about 300,000 Israeli Jews - nearly one out of ten - now live abroad...
...prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting 16-in. stuffed sharks on diners' tables, along with a card announcing JAWS: FOR A JAWFUL REVENGE. A fashionable Indian...
...armed services cashier some 2,000 men and women a year for homosexuality, usually with the stigma of a less than honorable discharge. However, under pressure from the gay movement, the military has lately been granting a few honorable discharges when the man's or woman's service record warrants it. The case of Sgt. Leonard Matlovich is the strongest challenge to the armed forces yet made by a homosexual soldier...