Word: sacrosanct
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...battle is more about politics than economics. In a $10 trillion economy, it doesn't much matter if the government has to dip into Social Security for a few spare billion. But with both parties committed to a lockbox, budget makers are forced to look for savings in less sacrosanct areas, which means that, depending on where the budget ax lands, you may be about to lose a popular program...
...first thing the Administration needs to be careful to do is to win the war over who lost the surplus. Democrats blame Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut. Without that money, they argue, Bush could be forced to raid sacrosanct Medicare and Social Security trust funds. "This new Administration inherited the largest budget surplus in our nation's history," complains John Spratt, senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "Yet after only five months, the record eight-year string of improving budgets is over...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary ... He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as ... Bertrand Russell ('he made a fool of himself'). He has spoken ill of children ('the most imperfect of all human beings') and dogs ('they are only brutes'). He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice ... (H)e has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in ... college students...
...task force will recommend exploration on sacrosanct federal lands--including the controversial Alaska National Wildlife Refuge--and possibly offshore tracts...