Word: sacrosanct
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...fact they seem to have absorbed about it. That, plus Kasich's claim to reduce the deficit by as much as Clinton proposes over five years, only with no tax increase, with half the cuts in defense that Clinton is proposing, and (Look Ma, no hands!) without touching the sacrosanct Social Security...
...servants conducting the public's business; the public has the right to review any documents they create -- paper or electronic. But how would those citizens feel it if were their E-mail that was being preserved for posterity? Shouldn't private missives sent over a privately owned computer be sacrosanct...
...testing. Even medical examiner Michael Baden, co-director of the New York State Police forensic-sciences % unit, admits the need for caution. "We have to be careful that we're not succumbing to the public desire for gossip," he says. "The remains of the dead should be treated as sacrosanct and re-examined only for reasons of great importance...
...next years, out beyond the burgeoning urban areas where suburbanites were grilling marbled steaks and roasting sweet corn to perfection, farmers were in economic distress, and they began to experiment with residue management. Surpluses forced millions of acres to lie idle. Plowing was no longer so sacrosanct. Though 60,000 moldboard plows were manufactured in the nation in 1970, the plow was fading. Last year only 6,300 moldboard plows were sold. Today John Deere does not even manufacture the plowshares and bottoms for the few thousand completed plows it sells. Its new world is about tractor- pulled machines called...
...repeatedly in recent weeks that the government has spent "$3 trillion over 25 years" fighting poverty, with the implication that this money has been lavished on the underclass. According to the White House's own figures, most of this mystical $3 trillion went for such non-underclass and politically sacrosanct programs as Medicare (more than a trillion) and veterans' benefits ($287 billion). The good intentions of anyone who talks about $3 trillion spent fighting poverty are suspect from the start...