Word: stigmas
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...mortuary business, promptly counteroffered to set up "a clinic for families in need of funeral services somewhat along the lines of medical clinics." "We want," declared the Association's president, John J. Flynn, "to keep the funeral service in such cases free from suspicion of pauper stigma such as might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would for $85 provide the use of their parlors, personnel and equipment, a standard casket, and a grave. Graves at such a bargain price...
...moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures, and the stigma that being "flunked out" puts upon them often develops an inferiority complex that they are not justified in feeling. Some of these individuals would have done much better at a trade school, or in a nonacademic career, and neither their time and money nor the college's would have been wasted...
...office gently, his mouth puckered from his last glimpse of the secretary. He went home in a reflective mood and told his parents, in a voice that sounded like Baer speaking to Louis, he thought he would be gosh-darned if he would drive to Washington under the stigma of any accident policy...
...Life. In China no great moral stigma had commonly attached to graft. It was the custom of nearly every official who could to collect it. For the colossal purchases Chiang had to make, he could not afford the normal luxury of graft. To find someone he could trust to purchase war planes the Generalissimo turned at last in desperation to his own wife. She it was who pored over aircraft catalogs, dickered with hard-boiled white salesmen, and is reputed to have had several Chinese officials of her Air Ministry shot to reduce thieving...
...rayon producers are ordered to label their goods specifically throughout the manufacturing and distributing process. If a scarf is part silk, but mostly rayon, it must be labeled "rayon-silk." If it is mostly silk it is to be labeled "silk-rayon." Makers who have sought to avoid the stigma that sometimes is attached to the name rayon by concocting trade and process names like Celanese, Bemberg and acetate may still use them, but must also label the goods as rayon. Sample: "Bemberg-rayon...