Word: anathema
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...better," says Jim Rothenberg, one of nine managers of Growth Fund of America. What's more, sales commissions are the one thing investors loathe, and American Funds dishes out aplenty. Its 29 funds have low expenses but are distributed through brokers who tack on up to 5.75%--anathema to any cost-conscious investor and a sure way to be dissed by the press...
Plus, all of this is kind of a dated argument, in a way. The real snobs that I know sound suspiciously like you, my friend. They tend to be the ones who, in a dazzling feat of meta-snobbery, decide that Pitchfork’s opinions are anathema, and doubt themselves if they agree with this merry band of traveling hipsters...
...world was reminded last week, the biggest breakthroughs in cloning are now coming from Asia--not just South Korea but also China and Singapore. Hwang won't say what he's planning, but the next logical step would be to clone a primate. Human cloning may still be anathema, but the world seems to be inching ever closer. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and Alice Park/New York
...manufacturing jobs in the U.S.? People shop at Wal-Mart because it's cheaper. We look for better prices on clothes, appliances and vehicles. What's going to happen when China 's manufacturing powerhouse really kicks into gear? Protecting the U.S. economy will require extreme measures that are perhaps anathema to a free-market philosophy. Tariffs seem to be the next logical step. Another possibility is launching a propaganda campaign. If every television show had a 30-sec. piece featuring empty U.S. factories and dust blowing through American ghost towns, Chinese goods just might stop flying off the shelves. John...
...just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up." It was useless, he explained in another address, to employ "thundering tones of anathema and denunciation," for denunciation would be met by denunciation, "anathema with anathema...