Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government pamphlets circulating in Port-au-Prince last week left little to the imagination. "Dr. Francois Duvalier will fulfill his sacrosanct mission. He has crushed and will always crush the attempts of the opposition. Think well, renegades. Here is the fate awaiting you and your kind." Below was a photograph of three severed heads torn from the bodies of captured anti-Duvalier guerrillas and displayed at Haiti's National Palace. Just in case anyone missed the message, "Papa Doc" administered yet another object lesson to his opposition. In a chilling ceremony at Port-au-Prince's "Ex-terieur...
Some of the excises are sacrosanct, such as those on gas and autos, which are earmarked to pay the costs of federal highway construction. But the move to cut others has developed powerful support. The most talked-about possibility is a reduction of $1 billion to $3 billion that would remove many taxes that have become obsolete. It would probably include, among others, the tariffs on such modern necessities as luggage, telephone calls, toiletries and ballpoint pens...
...protest TIME'S announcement of this heavenly delicacy to the whole world. You whites have taken our suntan, our curly hair, our funky music, indeed our women, in violation of your sacrosanct mores...
...retailers do not have to compete for the consumer's ruble, there is little incentive to produce attractive, well-made goods or to improve design. If a factory retools for a new product, the lost production time may well cost its manager his bonus for overfulfilling the sacrosanct quota. As it is, at the end of every month he is limp from shturmovshchina, the frenetic, last-minute battle to beat the quota...
...ESTABLISHMENT. The Establishment company, a hip group of anti-p.r. men, demolish sacrosanct images and egos with laughing precision, and gambol satirically on what is nearly In or almost...