Word: sacrosanct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Good Friday, thousands of radio stations, from Rome, Ga., to the Voice of America, broadcast We Are the World simultaneously; even Muzak shattered its sacrosanct format to chime in. In New York City, radio station WYNY-FM invited citizens to join a chorus on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral; hundreds showed up and let loose. In Indianapolis, three clubs donated their facilities and three local bands their talents. Latin artists, featuring Jose Feliciano and Julio Iglesias, have already made their own recorded contribution, Cantare Cantaras, which is projected to pull in $15 million for hunger relief; gospelers have...
...after NBC and CBS) stunned television executives like an assault from the A Team. Reverberations rumbled from Washington regulatory agencies to Wall Street investment banks. Though the buy-out was a friendly one involving two members of the broadcasting fraternity, the clubby world of the networks suddenly seemed less sacrosanct...
...Personal Computer. A dozen executives led by Philip D. Estridge, 47, set up headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., in 1980 with a blank check and a mandate to get IBM into the personal-computer business as soon as possible. The group proceeded to break some of the most sacrosanct IBM traditions. Instead of just using IBM's legendary sales organization, it decided to sell through computer retailers as well. To keep costs in line and speed up development, it bought most of the parts from outside suppliers, rather than from inside IBM. The PC has been extraordinarily successful and last...
Tribe's arguments before the high court followed several tacks, but focused on the point that has brought religious leaders with widely different beliefs rallying to Moon's cause--the traditionally sacrosanct character of a religious institution's financial organization. It has always been legally acceptable for a religious leader to hold funds for a church in his name, and the practice is widespread among small churches, as well as in the Catholic Church. The late Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, for example, held millions in his name for the Church...
...Kennedy School to his side, then I suppose his failure to adopt their "rules" would be a rhetorical weakness. But it's clear Schell hoped to shift the ground of argument entirely to an ethical and moral plane, from which the "political science rules" which Hirschorn appears to hold sacrosanct appear unnatural, if not murderous. The structure of his book was to "simply say things are awful and then prescribe the best of all possible worlds," as Hirschorn puts it, but to say that things are intolerable and then point to the only tenable solution. Politics no doubt...