Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory, bankruptcy, like unemployment, ought to be impossible in a Communist country, where the means of production are controlled by the state. But Hungary has been tampering with Marxist economic dogma since 1968, and it now permits the existence of privately run restaurants and other small businesses. In April, further reforms were approved to make Hungarian products more competitive in Western markets...
Just as importantly, the authors point out that biological deterministic dogma has falsely labelled various gender differences as facts. Men are taller than women, less emotionally dependent, more exploratory and able to orient themselves in open spaces, more visual and more reponsive to simple stimuli, and in general more successful. And the list goes on. But as the authors assert, these "facts" are simply the selective observations of scientists who wish to support their preconceived notions of a society divided along sex lines...
...long been part of the dogma of the nuclear age that the best defense is a good offense. That is what deterrence is all about: the other side is less likely to attack if its leaders know they will prompt a vastly destructive counterattack. A corollary to the dogma of "offense-dominated" deterrence is that there is nothing more provocative and destabilizing than a strategic defense. The more one superpower tries to protect itself against attack, the more the other side will try to improve its offensive weapons to be sure it can overwhelm and thwart those defenses. Thus...
...expressed clearly and uniformly. A new code of canon law, enacted last November, limits the requirement for an imprimatur to texts used in teaching. Catholic theologians, including those in the clergy, are thus freer to explore differing opinions. But when it comes to books intended to elucidate official Catholic dogma, the Vatican has now sent an unmistakable signal. Such texts must be unequivocally faithful to church doctrine if they are to have the church's formal blessing...
...Designed by Florence Knoll, it combines the work of Cranbrook creators into a smart, elegant interior, as representative of our time as the Victorian parlor was of its own. Like so much else from Cranbrook, the interiors evince a belief in the joy of design without the restraints of dogma, Weltanschauung, polemics, fad or fashion. At the same time, they live up to Founder Saarinen's credo that "the first thing and the most important one is to develop an adequate design to express our contemporary life." -By Wolf Von Eckardt