Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent survey of 200 colleges showed that scholarship applicants come from families with an average income of $7,500, some 50 per cent higher than the national average family income. "Many low-income students do not apply due to the "high cost stigma," a myth which, Monro stated, must be overcome...
Monro is currently working with the College Scholarship Service to organize both public and private colleges "to counteract this stigma." This mutual effort would involve recruitment of students from low-income districts through visits by college admissions officers...
Theodore R. Marmor '60 charged that such a system would "put a stigma on those not nominated by the Masters." After considerable debate, this section of the report was sent back to the committee for further study...
...attempt to remove the bad-driving stigma from Luxembourg's good name, the coalition government last year pushed through a seemingly routine law requiring all of the grand duchy's drivers to undergo a yearly checkup on their cars, at their own expense ($4). It did not sit well. Opposition Leader Eugene Schaus charged that one firm had tried to bribe the Ministry of Transport to get the contract. Spurning the bribe, the minister eliminated the firm from the list of candidates. Aha, said Schaus, but had he reported the bribe attempt within six days, as required...
...offensive to American officials. If the new corps is to gain American acceptance, it will probably have to sacrifice some of its desire for continuity in assistance projects by hiring itself out to various national programs. What it cannot afford to sacrifice is its freedom from the stigma of nationalistic policies which currently create such havoc in American programs...