Word: anathemas
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...four decades, the most important foreign policy challenge facing any President has been managing relations with the other superpower. The Soviet Union is the only state that can threaten America's existence; it is the principal U.S. rival for influence around the world; and its totalitarian political system is anathema to American values...
DUKAKIS and his staffers find themselves in a different type of quandary. First, there is the inevitable Cokecocaine link. And then there is the crucial, perhaps politically lethal question of the "new" Coke debacle. New Coke was anathema to the nation's traditionalist men and women. Dukakis no longer has to shrug off the "I" label but now the "n" world as well. He will need to take a stand. Classic Coke. With sugar. With caffeine. For real Americans...
...Central Valley can be appealed to like Southern conservatives, on crime, the death penalty, prison furloughs, gun control." Bush will also stress Dukakis' endorsement of a 1985 grape boycott called by United Farm Workers Leader Cesar Chavez, a stand popular with Latino farmhands, who mostly do not vote, but anathema to farm owners and their suppliers...
...anyone expected. As houses in the inner rings of suburbs became more expensive because of their proximity to jobs, developers began building outer rings of more affordable houses. For suburbs that have been intensively built up, it is too late for additional major highways. "Once development occurs, it is anathema to government to pave over someone's house," says Denton Kent, Fairfax's deputy county executive for planning and development...
...also a crusade. Khomeini had sought to use the conflict to help export his fundamentalist Islamic revolution from non-Arab Iran to the Arab world. The Ayatullah's dramatic about-face must have been all the more painful since it coincided with two anniversaries that are anathema to him. Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the revolt that brought to power Iraq's ruling secular Ba'athist regime, now headed by President Saddam Hussein. Last week was also the beginning of the hajj, the season of pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site. During...