Word: anathemas
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...this one. While Helms says his opposition to the posting turns on Weld's past support for the medicinal use of marijuana, and has suggested that Weld might be perfect for a place like, say, New Delhi, it is Weld's liberal social views that have made him anathema to the most conservative leaders of his party. For Clinton, the real value of the appointment was getting Weld out of the Massachusetts governor's office so that a Democrat -- say Joe Kennedy, who wants the job -- would not have to run against the extremely popular Republican moderate. Now that Weld...
...than the Senate's. GOP leaders were tight-lipped on details, but people close to the talks said the Republican proposal will allow investors to subtract the effects of inflation in calculating their capital gains and prevent the expansion of the $500 per child tax credit. Both provisions are anathema to Clinton. The bargaining table, meanwhile, is decidedly tilted toward the President. "Clinton and the Democrats are ahead in the public opinion polls in almost all the issues related to taxes, so the White House can be very relaxed in its negotiations...
Audiences today still get the irony of the Graduate line, although the aesthetic context has been altered now that, thanks to the rise of the postmodern sort of irony, cheesiness has hip cachet and plastic is no longer anathema. Indeed, the movie's mise-en-scene now has unintended resonances. While the filmmakers' intent was to fashion "a scarifying picture of the raw vulgarity of the swimming-pool rich," as Bosley Crowther wrote 30 years ago in the New York Times (this was an era when commentators were concerned with the social pathologies of the rich rather than the poor...
...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...