Word: stigmas
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...Bush chooses to ignore two realities: First, that most working women must work--their decision has as much to do with economics as with ambition. And second, that women who want to work should be able to do so without a social stigma...
Fearful of stigma and discrimination, bisexuals across the U.S. and Europe are becoming more organized and politically active, networking in such groups as BiNet and BiPAC. They are also challenging gay organizations, with which they have had an uneasy alliance, to focus more on bisexuality...
...candidates' positions may be Bush's biggest problem. Republicans have had a lock on foreign policy ever since McGovern and Vietnam swung the Democrats sharply to the left. Voters consistently found them too soft to trust with the nation's security. But Clinton is attempting to erase that stigma by aligning himself closely to the middle. Both he and Bush are internationalists, both are willing to use force if necessary, neither is an ideologue. Their differences on specific issues tend to be in degree rather than in kind: a matter of a few dollars more or less in defense cuts...
...nature intended, the sheer number of pollen grains -- the botanical bearers of sperm -- ensured that at least some would reach and adhere to their natural goal: the stigma, a moist and sticky receptor of the female organ of the flower. That would start a fertilization process eventually resulting in seed and the propagation of the species. As a result of one of nature's oversights, however, many of the pollen grains reached another moist and sticky target first: a human eye or the mucous membranes of a nose or bronchial tube, where they set off a chain of events with...
When this message is delivered and read by a stigma in a flower of the same species, the fertilization process begins. But when the grain lodges in the mucous membrane of a person susceptible to allergies, its protein message is heeded by the human immune system, which confuses it with a menacing invader. Alarmed, the system immediately begins churning out legions of IgE (for immunoglobulin E) antibodies, stationing them on "mast cells," which patrol the body's tissues...