Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vowed to make a start on fighting it by cutting at least $5.5 billion out of the federal budget for fiscal 1975, now in its third month. Though he earlier had talked against "unwarranted" cuts in military spending, he asserted this time that "no budget for any department is sacrosanct, and that includes the Defense budget." When asked what advice he could give the American worker confronted by soaring rises in the price of everything, Ford offered only bleak counsel: emulate the belt-tightening example of the Administration and "watch every penny...
...beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road with nails...
...parochial feelings, individual trustees said that the whole group would probably not yield to Harvard's desire for further co-education on such sacrosanct notions as a higher female-male ratio at Radcliffe or of a separated freshman class...
...Trustees will probably not yield to Harvard's desire for further coeducation on such sacrosanct notions as a higher female-male ratio at Radcliffe or a separated freshman class...
...recommending changes in the graduate curriculum, the Arrow Committee was proposing changes in an area the department holds almost sacrosanct--the training of future colleagues...