Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DISCHARGES WITH STIGMA. The Ford commission placed the number of servicemen given less-than-honorable discharges solely for desertion or absence from their posts at 83,135. Of these, only 13,589 asked that their cases be reviewed; all but about 1,000 were given clemency discharges. To many of the antiwar veterans, that discharge carries a stigma they still want erased by a blanket amnesty. Lack of an honorable discharge often bars ex-servicemen from jobs, and generally deprives them of military pensions, Government medical aid and educational benefits...
Some critics of the present format argue that gambling in the U.S. should be handled as it is in Britain: strictly supervised by government agencies but managed entirely by private companies. Among other effects, this would remove the stigma from the states of frenetically pushing an activity that is distasteful to many and dangerous to some...
Davis has given the Med School a stigma that may be difficult to dispel. The remarks of Phillip R. Pittman, chairman of the Med School's Third World Caucus, that "many students have a feeling of selling out if they apply to Harvard Medical School" reveals the great difficulty Harvard Med may have in getting qualified minorities to apply in the future...
...registers, marriage records during Reconstruction and later census data, Gutman found that the two-parent household and long-lasting marriages have been typical among blacks for most of their American experience. In the slave quarters, marital fidelity was highly regarded and defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves who outran...
Although other Harvard centers have tried to recruit minority children, many have failed due to "the Harvard stigma," she added...