Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical reasoning is sound. The legal reasoning is sound. But, hung up on an age-old taboo against "herbal medicine," overzealous government drug-warriors are unwilling to forfeit their "Just Say No" mantra for the wimpy-sounding Just Say Sometimes. That's the reasoning that led to the discontinuation of the FDA's "compassionate approval" program. And that's the reasoning that's keeping one of the few effective appetite enhancers away from dying AIDS patients...
...thinly veiled appeal to frustrated whites who feel they are victims of reverse discrimination. It is a clever ploy, and one whose attraction stretches far beyond the racist vote. A master at driving wedges through the electorate by exploiting race-linked issues, Duke is moving these once taboo topics from the back room to the public forum. As one wizened Cajun in Donaldsonville puts it, "He tell it like it is. He ain't scared...
...worldwide search for adoptable children is driven by classic causes: faltering domestic supply and rising demand. The number of babies available for adoption in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has declined as birthrates have shrunk and legal abortion has expanded. In addition, the taboo against unmarried motherhood -- that mainstay of Victorian novels -- has virtually disappeared, removing another source of homeless infants. In the U.S., 65% of the white babies born to single mothers were given up for adoption in 1966, but 20 years later that figure was down to 5%. National statistics are not kept, but some experts place...
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Peer Contraceptive Counselors (PCC) co-director Carlo Deantonio '92 said that Dr. Ruth will try to help change sex from being a "taboo topic" into an issue that is talked about "openly and respectfully...