Word: dogma
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...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...
...because it was motivated by "a concern for religious sensibilities rather than a dedication to scientific truth." Two weeks ago the Texas board of education repealed the controversial measure. Said American Way Coordinator Michael Hudson: "This is going to free publishers to write about science accurately, unhampered by religious dogma. It undoes ten years of creationist influence on textbook content, and it will spill over into every state...
...There is a dogma of disbelief about the degree of physical and sexual abuse in patients' backgrounds," she said...
With press and public interest in Hart intensifying, his policies and leadership style will come under closer examination. He portrays himself as the candidate unencumbered by dogma, with pragmatic ideas not easily pigeonholed. Claiming to speak for "a new generation of leadership," Hart says the contest between himself and Mondale is a choice "between our party's past and its future...