Word: stigmas
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...last 20 years, American foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...
Another sponsor, Martha E. Fish, said she saw the event as an opportunity to break down the stigma associated with homosexuals...
...Vegans have been living under the stigma of Sin City for so long that we are desperate to prove that this is a very conservative, God-fearing, average American community that just happens to have gambling," explains Under Sheriff Eric Cooper, who along with his boss, Sheriff John Moran, has been waging a 10-year antivice campaign. "The best thing that ever happened was when the Baptists had their convention here four years ago." The category of "Escort Services" is no longer listed in the local Yellow Pages...
TIME: There's a story in the paper today saying that the stigma has been removed from teenage pregnancy and that Democrats are responsible. What would you say to these children having children...
...pregnant, it's better to have an abortion than to have the child. Secondly, I think we have to recognize that a lot of ((these young women)) are living in a world very different from the one we live in, not only because there's no stigma but because there are also not the kind of structural day-to-day moral supports for not having children out of wedlock. What we need is an approach that recognizes the whole problem: the family breakdown, the moral breakdown, the total absence of traditional economic opportunity...