Word: stigmas
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...asthmatic Bobby (Logan Lerman). Through a framing device--flash-forward excerpts from a political documentary--we learn that in 2040, Bobby will be elected President. But to get to the White House he must first overcome the smothering influence of his lefty professor mother Grace (Christine Lahti) and the stigma of being the biggest dork in his high school. Grace is idealistic but willful--really, she's the rebellious teen in the family, down to her pot smoking--and so Jack is forced to be the adult. Like The West Wing, with which it shares producer Thomas Schlamme, Jack & Bobby...
...YEARS ago, a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin fled Nazi-occupied Europe, arrived in the U.S. and invented a word that he thought would change the world. Lemkin believed that genocide-- from the Greek geno (race or tribe) and the Latin cide (from caedere, killing)--would carry such stigma that states would be loath to commit the crime--or to allow...
Over the next three years, the school loses autonomy to the state and to private contractors. At every stage, the stigma associated with the loss of status and autonomy encourages those who can to leave the failing school, while those who don’t have the resources or the parental support to switch schools are left in a privatized trap that likely does even worse on Bush’s tests than it did in the first place. And to make matters worse, the president has underfunded his own initiative, assuring that the students who are left behind...
...shows, and, according to Michael Macko, head buyer for menswear at Saks Fifth Avenue, expensive jeans are the foundation for the style-conscious man's wardrobe. Macko says sales of casual designer clothing are up among young men who, unlike their elders, "grew up without the stigma that only gay men went shopping by themselves or with other men." For this new generation, Macko says, "it all starts with a premium denim, whether it's Levi's Premium or Seven; a great shoe, maybe Tod's; then a great shirt; then a blazer. We're doing a huge business...
...this response could be the fact that it is the response people feel they are supposed to give,” he wrote in an e-mail. “People don’t like admitting they don’t care about politics. There is a stigma attached to being apathetic...