Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enthusiasm was not enough to propel the dream into reality. "Wind developed a reputation for not working, and it had the stigma of a tax scam," says Robert Thresher, the wind-program manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. Eventually the problems caused power companies to back away. And by 1985, when the tax credits expired, the remaining wind towers began looking more and more like monuments to a lost cause...
...WEDLOCK, teenage pregnancy is associated with the margins of society. Pregnant teenagers are viewed as part of the disenfranchised youth, in league with the drop-outs, the druggies, the shoplifters and the punks. I couldn't avoid feeling that stigma, and at times half believing, however irrationally, that unwanted pregnancy was my just reward for being too loose with my "favors...
...creation of the fund will remove the stigma that the council cannot afford major projects," Aronberg said...
NAPPING IS a definite art. It takes a lot of effort to get to a point where you can push aside the concerns of a hectic life at any time and dive between your sheets. Napping only has a stigma because our parents forced us to nap when we were little and we resented it. Staying awake all day was what we thought separated adults from children. We were wrong...
...pious hypocrisy. However much Third World governments may decry the surge in Western adoptions, millions of children around the world are abandoned and homeless -- about 7 million in Brazil alone. Only a tiny percentage of these children find homes locally, and in some cases they are doomed to eternal stigma. In Korea, for example, a Confucian value system places such a premium on male gender and blood ties that the adoption of a baby girl, or an unrelated male, is virtually unthinkable...