Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT THEY WANTED] --LENDERS say consumers have abused the system, using bankruptcy as a debt-avoidance tactic. The stigma is gone...
Once cloning loses its stigma, the urge to tinker with the genes of offspring may not be far behind. As Cambridge molecular biologist Graeme Mitchison says, "We can all be beautiful--no baldness, no wimps with glasses, no knobby knees." Olivia Judson, author of a forthcoming book called Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation, begs to differ: "If there is such hostility to genetically modified soya, it doesn't bode well for genetically modified people...
...students suffer the stigma of being slightly socially challenged but bright and technologically adroit. But MIT's fraternities have been doing their part of late to disprove at least the second part of the stereotype...
Hair removal is not cheap (an average $500 a treatment). But for many women (and some men), it seems a small price to pay to solve a problem that still carries a stigma. Even in this feminist era, female mustaches and chin hair are not openly discussed or even much written about. "A lot of people feel psychologically scarred by heavy hair," says Dr. Edward Tobinick, director of UCLA's Institute of Laser Medicine. "One woman got up at 2 a.m. to shave before her husband...
...political risk by the authorities. "He was incredible bassist," she says, "but he was so much exposed to the West, he started having problems getting work. Then he fell ill and was refused medical treatment." When Ivan Kotov died at age 35, his teenage daughter, unable to escape the stigma of guilt by association, decided to move to the West. She eventually made her way to the U.S. to study at Yale, leaving her state-owned cello behind at the Moscow Conservatory...