Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it collapsed in 1982, Milan's Banco Ambrosiano left behind a $1.3 billion missing-funds scandal and a stigma on the Roman Catholic Church...
...problem through tax cuts, defense hikes, or constructing more shelters for the homeless. But Boston is a city on the move, as Kevin White always said with a quivering voice, a city about to become an international center for culture and commerce. Such a city cannot afford the stigma of racism that Boston earned during the mid-seventies' forced busing fracas...
Busing, or more precisely the fact that U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity tried as a symbolic gesture to bus Blacks into the most Irish of Boston neighborhoods, Southie, "exacerbated the latent racial tensions that existed in Boston and gave Boston a national stigma," White says...
...Saturday afternoon the Elis were finally able to dump their woes and the stigma of going 0-for-the-eighties. They dumped it squarely on the Crimson, posting a 13-5 victory...
...their popularity and remain saddled with myriad difficulties: the fitful 41-month war with archenemy Iraq, which continues to drain men and money; a ruling class already decimated, and always threatened, by tenacious urban guerrillas; 2 million refugees from the front and another 1.5 million from Afghanistan; and the stigma of international isolation. But during a rare ten-day visit to the country, which has remained virtually closed to Americans since 1979, a TIME reporter found that the Ayatullah's regime has managed, for the moment, to weather these challenges with surprising agility. It has settled nearly...