Word: anathema
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...capitalize them, insert them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your blue book will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's list. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like...
Significant turnover in legislative races in New Jersey and Virginia gave evidence of an anti-incumbent mood that could help Democrats against Bush but hurt them at every other level of government. And the day also appeared gave a test to a term-limitation movement anathema to the majority Democrats in Congress...
...wounds of race and class in a possible preview of next year's ugly national politics. Duke, 41, is tapping into working-class frustrations about welfare and affirmative action, violent crime and failing schools, lost jobs and a stagnant economy that resonate broadly throughout the country. His rise is anathema to the national Republican leadership, which strongly repudiates him but now finds many of its most effective themes tainted by the ex-Klansman's use of them. In the 1992 presidential campaign, George Bush may find it dangerous to blast affirmative action and racial quotas -- much less run Willie Horton...
...coalition, voters ensured that their country's vaunted politics of cooperation would be sorely tested. Bildt will need at least the tacit support of the new right-wing protest party, New Democracy, which won 25 seats by advocating curbs on immigration and cuts in foreign aid -- policies that are anathema to the rest of the nonsocialist bloc and to the socialists as well. Even then, he will face the daunting task of cutting taxes and government spending while not obliging his countrymen to give up too many of their customary benefits too soon...
...past recessions, Washington this time seems powerless to play its traditional role of jump- starting the economy. The massive federal deficits that helped fuel the creation of 22 million new jobs in the 1980s have made fresh tax cuts or spending programs politically and economically anathema. Moreover, the Federal Reserve Board has resisted spurring job growth by sharply dropping interest costs, lest the tactic speed up a relatively modest 3% inflation rate...