Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That possibility infuriates critics, who argue that the healthier approach would be to take the stigma out of being short. Instead, says Barnard, the NIH is legitimizing bias by implicitly "telling kids they're not adequate as they...
...students of the tutors with regard to this issue. It was not to be discussed in the House, so some tutors went to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. In doing so, many of these tutors felt they were risking their jobs since there was a stigma attached to speaking...
...Right now, there is a stigma against and even a fear of providing abortions in hospitals [much] due to the insidious attitudes of anti-choice doctors and violence against providers," Gilhuly said...
...first brought to the public's attention by the Moynihan Report on the Negro Family in 1965. Liberals like Moynihan who linked the plight of disadvantaged groups to broader problems in society suddenly found themselves silenced by a waves of critics on the Left who furiously objected to the stigma attached to terms like the "underclass" and "social pathology." Precursors to the multiculturalism of the 1990s, these critics rejected liberal arguments that linked "pathological" aspects of ghetto life to economic oppression and isolation. Instead, the report's critics urged a new emphasis on the strengths and virtues of the Black...
...have been a jock for five years now. It has always carried a stigma with it, but never so pronounced as it is now at the "diversity capital of the world." Just because I am what some would call big does not make me stupid. I am shocked about the treatment that some of us "jocks" receive. It may be true that athletics is a good way to get into Harvard, but is that necessarily a bad thing? If we are to be a truly diverse community, we must accept physical as well as intellectual and artistic abilities into...