Word: stigmas
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...Harvard Bok inherits-unresolved debates over merger, curriculum reform, responsibility to the community, the maintenance of the library, and the sustenance of numerous experimental programs-is now moving under the shadows of a rapidly increasing deficit. At the same time, the University administration has neutralized but not erased the stigma of unresponsiveness-a nagging legacy from the April '69 student strike...
...Washington, they call it the "welfare syndrome." Largely because of the work of groups like the National Welfare Rights Organization, which now has chapters in all 50 states, the poor no longer feel that any stigma is attached to applying for welfare. Tens of thousands of persons who were once too timid or too ashamed to go on the dole are now rapping on the doors of their local welfare offices and demanding the payments they consider to be their right. Coupled with liberalized requirements and high unemployment, this has resulted, according to Department of Health, Education and Welfare figures...
Horner cited a study which showed that up to 85 per cent of female college students exhibit a fear of achievement caused by "the anticipation of negative consequences of success in the form of social rejection and the stigma of non-femininity...
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...strongly religious country people who had been the bulwark of his support, they said, would be offended by his divorce and remarriage, and the younger voters, tired of the stigma Arkansas acquired for the Little Rock school crisis of 1957, would reject his old brand of polities...