Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, though, all talk of tinkering with the Maastricht rules is anathema--and a potential threat to his re-election chances next year. "Kohl's already having trouble selling the German public on the idea of exchanging their hard D-marks for soft euros," says Paul Horne, a Paris-based international economist with Smith Barney. "If Jospin puts conditions to the Germans that they can't accept, it's goodbye euro." No wonder Kohl made a long phone call to Chirac the day after the election to seek assurances on France's future European policy...
...challenges facing applicants from other countries. In admitting American applicants the admissions office routinely makes allowances for different challenges faced by students. On a similar level Harvard should recognize the problems encountered by otherwise qualified foreign applicants in pursuing extra-curricular interests societies where the very notion is often anathema...
...previous cases, spanning two decades, the NLRB ruled consistently that the prospect of collective bargaining between students and teachers was "an anathema" and the "very antithesis" of the educational process, according to Yale's motion...
...accepts students pursuing a masters degree in business education. In addition to the first class of MBA students who will graduate this year, Oxford also has initiated an undergraduate program for the joint study of economics and management. If British intellectual elitism makes the discipline of business studies an anathema, why do such programs exist? Apparently, Oxford is averse to the concept of a business school, not to the study of business itself...
...victims of the Holocaust and their families. The Swiss Foundation for Solidarity, to be set up in the coming year, would use proceeds from Swiss gold reserves that could produce several hundred million dollars a year, all while avoiding the use of Swiss taxpayers' money, an idea that is anathema to many conservatives. But Koller was careful to characterize the fund as a broad humanitarian measure--not a reparation. The money, he said, would help "victims of poverty and catastrophes, of genocide and other severe breeches of human rights such as, of course, victims of the Holocaust." Such vagueness...