Word: anathemae
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...that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable. But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema...
...servants a century ago. The blacks were at the center of a battle over school integration, allied with liberal whites behind School Superintendent Gregory Coffin's implementation of a plan to distribute blacks equally among the city's 16 elementary schools (TIME, March 9, 1970). Coffin became anathema to conservatives and was forced out after integration was completed. Evanston's grammar schools survived, however, as a model of quality and racial integration...
...California and New York. Together, the two largest states have 3,000,000 people receiving aid and distribute almost 37% of the nation's welfare money. Reagan is a conservative, budget-minded administrator confronted by a geometric rise in costs for a program that is in part a philosophical anathema to him. For months he fought to dispense smaller checks than those mandated under federal rules. HEW came within a day of announcing a cutoff of $684 million in aid to California, most of it destined for children and their unemployed mothers. Only last-minute negotiations averted the stop order...
...workers protesting the government's proposed Industrial Relations Reform Act, which comes up for debate this week in the House of Commons. The Carr bill, so named for Employment and Productivity Minister Robert Carr, aims at legally preventing wildcat work stoppages. Though the bill is anathema to many union members, only a fraction of Britain's 24 million organized workers left their jobs in protest...
...counter culture is anathema in Vegas. Hang around the blackjack tables and you'll see that the greening of America has very little to do with determined little plants poking their heads through concrete vistas. Vegas was to have a rock festival last July, a bone-dry echo of Woodstock was all set to grit its teeth against the drifting sands while digging into an abandoned airfield on the edge of town. The town fathers moved quickly to see that it never came...