Word: anathemae
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...Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year-old system of export subsidies and import duties was anathema to Begin, who during his election campaign had promised less government interference in the economy. Instead, said Begin's top aide, Yehiel Kadishai, "we are going from a welfare state to a state where workers will fare well...
...five-year-old Buick. Friends describe him as earnest and rather dull at parties. Politically, Hunt calls himself moderate, and by family standards he is. He has supported conservative candidates, but talks of the need for business and government to work together, a view that would have been anathema to his father...
...milch cow' of the Community." Further, Schmidt has made it clear to the Italian government that Germany would end all further economic aid to Italy if the Communists were allowed to come into the government. Bonn sees no reason why it should subsidize a political movement that is anathema to the majority of Germans. Pointing to his own pragmatic and successful policies, Schmidt has urged his partners to end their continuous domestic political maneuverings and address themselves to the urgent issues facing Western Europe today, namely economic recovery and European unity...
Nothing helped though. Rockefeller remained anathema to Republicans from Florida to California. A visit of the "new" Rockefeller to the Mississippi GOP served to change its burning hatred for him into hatred...
...were fully funded. Trouble was, when the state budget came out, the act was not funded at all. The court finally imposed a July 1 deadline, and the legislature tinkered for months with ways of raising the money, including trying to pass what had long been anathema to New Jersey conservatives-a state income tax. Even so, the assembly and the senate were not able to hit upon a tax formula that could pass both houses...