Doug Logan, then the chief executive of USA Track and Field, told The Chicago Tribune that Merritt was "selfish" and had "sullied his career and put an unfortunate stigma on himself he is going to be living down the rest of his life".
Tamara has a son who attends a local kindergarten, and the young mother is aware that if teachers and other parents knew that she is HIV positive, the child would face the same stigma, although he himself is HIV negative.
Lionel Chetwynd, a writer and director who is a Republican, said Mr. Schwarzenegger had avoided the stigma of "having identified himself as a Republican -- he's very deft at that".
"He's trying to overcome stigma, he's reinvented himself as an artist.
A man could confide his private sorrow or his elation or his exhaustion to F. P. A. without exposing himself to the stigma of a money reward.
His criticisms of affirmative action reflected these insecurities, emphasizing the stigma it imposed on people like himself.
Then he continued to bombard us with sweet nothings about "free thinking" and the stigma of love, as if to cocoon himself from the brunt of his own provocations.
Even if Romney can't divorce himself completely from the Transformer stigma before November, he can certainly do something.
And still the stigma remains; over a hundred years after Pottier hanged himself from his bike hook, what has changed?
To be sure, Mr. Corzine has gone to great lengths to identify himself as a progressive, mindful of the stigma that is attached to the word liberal in the current political climate.
