Word: anathemas
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Such support is anathema to Neighbor to Neighbor, which opposes U.S. policy in El Salvador. The protest group, with a national membership of 52,000, argues that El Salvador's $400 million worth of annual coffee exports mainly benefits a handful of wealthy families and helps finance death squads and military atrocities against civilians. "There's blood on that coffee," says Fred Ross, the group's director. "Action by corporations like Procter & Gamble could send economic shock waves into El Salvador and force a negotiated settlement...
...women. Parental leave, by embracing the "daddy track" as well as the "mommy track," implies that men and women have similar obligations for child-rearing. More significantly, it implicitly endorses the notion that women should have the same opportunities as men to work outside the home--a concept still anathema to many Republican leaders...
...capitalize them, inset 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 bluebook 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 Natalie...
Think about it: I have to dress up in fancy clothes, anathema number one. In front of hundreds of my peers I must dance to music that I never heard during my small-town upbringing. It is probably more painful for others to watch me humiliate myself on the dance floor than...
This proposal, designed to head off global warming, has gone nowhere, despite the efforts of the United Nations Environment Program to forge a worldwide treaty limiting the release of carbon dioxide. In the U.S., a primary producer of CO2, new taxes are anathema to the current Administration in any case. The President has declared that global warming is a problem that needs study, not immediate action...