Word: stigmas
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...Middle East. No joint policy exists in the Far East, where the two powers disagree over the recognition of Red China. The U.S., in helping emergent peoples in Asia and North Africa, had often found its achievements compromised by the U.S. association with the colonial powers. This stigma might not have been crippling if the U.S., Britain and France had hammered out a joint approach that the Asian-African world could accept. They...
Last week the university announced that it would try to eliminate the problem by setting up a "facility" of its own to accommodate the 100 Percenters. But would not membership in the facility still carry a stigma? In an earnest effort to avoid that, Sophomore Vice President Robert Hillier announced that he would accept no bids from any club, but would join the university's facility and bring "60 or 70 of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," said he. "Someone has to make...
...supply its own uniform program, the keystone became security instead of suitability. Under the new standard, "employment or retention in employment in the Federal Service" had to be "clearly consistent with the interests of national security." The program thereby greatly extended the possible cause for suspension and placed the stigma of "security risk" on employees whose sins were no worse than casual association with characters of dubious loyalty...
...knocked out by a few Russian bombs, or occupied in a matter of days. Big manufacturers who would have to make the tanks and heavy guns have all the peacetime business they can use, and firms like Krupp want no part of the risk and none of the stigma of becoming munitions makers again. Furthermore, weapons are in a transitional stage, and Germans do not want to commit themselves to large-scale production until the weapons of the future have taken clear shape...
...increase reflects a basic shift in the American outlook. Even churches, traditionally shy of debt, have taken advantage of easy credit and heavy collection plates. Shucking off the social stigma that once was associated with debt, most U.S. consumers have also shed their economic qualms about pledging future earnings to enrich the present...