Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times have changed. For those entering politics today, membership in exclusive private clubs--such as the nine all-male final clubs at Harvard--is as often a stigma as a social asset...
Marketers are confounded as they try to reach a generation so rootless and noncommittal. But ad agencies that have explored the values of the twentysomething generation have found that status symbols, from Cuisinarts to BMWs, actually carry a social stigma among many young adults. Their emphasis, according to Dan Fox, marketing planner at Foote, Cone & Belding, will be on affordable quality. Unlike baby boomers, who buy 50% of their cars from Japanese makers, the twentysomething generation is too young to remember Detroit's clunkers of the 1970s. Today's young adult is likely to aspire to a Jeep Cherokee...
...years, evidence has been accumulating that alcoholism is at least in part an inherited disease. Studies of children of alcoholics and "alcoholic" strains of lab animals have lessened the profound social stigma associated with the condition. But the 18 million admitted alcohol abusers in the U.S., from Kitty Dukakis to Darryl Strawberry, still struggle against the suspicion that people who drink excessively are weak, bad or both...
...favorable reaction. Even more calls of support poured in after a story about the series was front- paged by the New York Times last week. Geneva Overholser, the Register's editor, believes strongly that the American press should be franker in reporting sexual assaults. "We are participating in the stigma of rape by treating victims of this crime differently," says Overholser. "When we as a society refuse to talk openly about rape, I think we weaken our ability to deal with...
...defense of conscientious objectors and other dissidents. Slight of build and speaking with a soft lisp, De Maiziere, 50, is a religious man who has never demonstrated an appetite for public life. But he answered the call when he was asked last fall to cleanse the CDU of the stigma it bore from decades of cooperation with the Communists...