1.   Cobble, an associate pastor at the Christian Teaching and Worship Center in Woburn, said he was pleased to shed the stigma of child abuser after two years.

2.   The boom in business has helped the industry shed its stigma.

3.   The New National Party is considering changing its name to shed the stigma of its apartheid past.

4.   With U.S. technical and financial assistance, Russia would be able to shed that stigma and promote foreign investment, Berger said.

5.   But his party is still trying to shed the stigma, as Wijdenbosch seeks desperately needed foreign investment.

6.   Repressed for decades like the childhood traumas he diagnosed, Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in Russia as the country sheds the stigmas long attached to psychotherapy.