Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report includes a policy that clearly defines rape, sexual assault and sexual misconduct as anathema to the Harvard and Radcliffe community. The policy forcefully states the refusal to accept these behaviors and the commitment to work to eliminate and address this problem both internally and in conjunction with the criminal justice system...
These friends' families are all as religious as the Pope. What separates them from many families in our society is that they realize that morality, to be pertinent to life, must be person-centered. They are against pre-marital sexual intercourse. But instead of making their children anathema when they get pregnant or get their girl-friends pregnant, they choose to help them...
...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...