Word: stigmas
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...should age be a stigma in the workplace. As many middle-aged executives will tell you, the race is not necessarily to the young, and should not be. As the retirement age continues to move upward and life-expectancy increases, returning to a career at 35 or even 40 should not exclude workers from reaching high levels of management. After all, they still have 30 or more productive years left...
Alcoholism used to be a secret held close, known only to the sufferer's loved ones, and carrying a harsh social stigma. But anyone walking the streets of downtown San Diego last weekend would have seen little sign that any of the estimated 60,000 recovering alcoholics and Al-Anon members attending the Alcoholics Anonymous convention there were anything but loud and proud. Celebrating the group's 60th anniversary, participants from 72 countries sporting first-name-only registration badges flashed smiles and offered greetings to the people they passed along the San Diego waterfront...
...report," she says, although a copy was sent to her last week. Charles Murray, who glowingly accepted O'Neill's work when it first appeared, now says, "I never thought some small family-cap disincentive would work. I think the key to what's happening here is the growing stigma that's attaching to illegitimacy across the population." The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge copycat laws elsewhere, says, "I never expected O'Neill's results in the first place, but even if she's wrong, giving new money...
...with my peers. I never thought I couldn't handle it. I had fears, lots of them, but they were blanketed by waves of excitement and the overriding thought that this was the moment I had been waiting for. After 12 years of trudging through school and bearing the stigma of being someone who actually chose to study, I had finally arrived at the moment when all my work would...
...Harvard students, it is also a stigma. After all, few people tell their roommates or even their closest friends if they go to Room 13, ECHO or Response. It defies the Harvard image of the flawless, utterly capable person who balances extracurriculars, academics, friendships and romance with ease and finesse...