Word: stigmas
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...format has a special appeal to female listeners: it allows them to hear someone like themselves instead of, say, someone like Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. And record companies like it because women tend to buy more records than men. "Years ago, there used to be a stigma held by rock-radio programmers against playing too many female artists," says Bob Waugh, assistant programming director at modern-rock radio station WHFS in Washington. "Now there has been such an explosion of female artists and female-led bands coming to prominence that the perception has changed...
Hopefully for the Crimson the knowledge and experience from this past season will enable it to not only compete in the key matches, but actually emerge the victor. Only then will the team be able to shed the "rebuilding year" stigma...
...downplaying, the stigma of number three was too difficult to wash away in a snap. Many students were baffled that the home of Crimson Cash, The Tasty and Cornel West '74 was not the hands-down winner...
Flinn leaves the service with a stigma on her service record. By military definition, a general discharge is given to someone whose "service has been honest and faithful," according to military regulations, but when "significant negative aspects of the member's conduct or performance of duty outweigh positive aspects of the member's military record." Since she is resigning so soon after graduation, Flinn will have to repay about 20% of the cost of her Air Force Academy education, or about...
...disabled people were going to beat down the walls seeking employment. It was not the case. What happened was that existing employees sought accommodations." And this a key point: there is already a lot of mental disability in the workplace. The ADA's goal is to remove the stigma of talking about it and coping with it. "Ideally, if you are an employer and you try to use this guidance for problem solving, you are going to avoid litigation most of the time," says Gary Phelan, the co-chairman of the disability-rights committee of the National Employment Lawyer...