Word: axiom
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Ellwood, who argues articulately and coherently for revamping the current American approaches to poverty, accepts the standard axiom of welfare--that everybody hates it--and he goes on to explain his reasons why. Welfare, as Ellwood reasons it, is the wrong set of remedies to a misidentified set of problems. It fails to address the causes of poverty, and it penalizes those poor Americans who come closest to embracing traditional values of work and value...
...most important criminal law rulings of the decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has given a new twist to the first axiom of American justice, that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty. In a 6-3 decision last week, the court upheld the controversial 1984 Bail Reform Act, by which Congress authorized the "preventive detention" of some federal suspects. For many years federal judges were forbidden to deny bail in most cases, except when there was reason to believe that a defendant might flee before trial. The new law has permitted those judges to refuse bail to thousands...
...Allende) have been denied entry into the U.S. on the grounds that what they (will!) say is prejudicial to state interests. Hence Mr. Brown's privilege to air his views from a Harvard podium is hardly a "right", and it is a mistake to regard it as an axiom...
...single blow much of the turmoil that was unsettling Manila. And when she went on to ax four controversial ministers, while signing a cease- fire with the Communist rebels, Aquino pulled off a strategic coup of her own. Few could doubt that she had mastered the Napoleonic axiom that "justice means force as well as virtue...
...much of a good thing," seems to be the axiom behind the scores of cinema novelizations that America's publishing houses have been spewing out with clock-like regularity. Two recent publications epitomize the best and worst in this copycat trend: the eponymous Ran and Max Headroom: 20 minutes into the future...