Word: sacrosanct
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...nothing else, the Italian way of government almost slavishly honors traditions. One is the prolongation of political crises to a degree that commands the awe, if not exactly the envy, of the rest of Europe. Another is an unfailing respect for the sacrosanct mid-August "Ferragosto" vacation, when millions of Italians, especially the politicians, seek a respite from the inconclusive politicking of Rome and leap to the seashore like cats onto tuna...
...right of sovereignty has usually been considered sacrosanct, and to belong to people, not corporations," Douglas Randall, the attorney handling the suit for the city, said yesterday...
Travelers are still waiting to see if the inconvenience of the gas lines is going to disappear or grow worse. In the meantime, some are beginning to wonder a little whether the whole idea of the vacation-an institution sacrosanct in American habit-makes much sense...
...modernization that exacerbated economic and social problems in many Third World nations. Health clinics cut down on disease, but they also aggravated the population explosion in those Islamic nations where birth control is little practiced. Rapid growth of industry in cities provided jobs, but it also disrupted the sacrosanct family structure in villages as men streamed into cities in search of work...
...billion then to $404 billion in fiscal 1980. In the past ten years, they have jumped from 64% to 76% of the federal budget. Thus less than one-quarter of the budget is subject to paring-unless and until Congress is prepared to curb the uncontrollables. They seem politically sacrosanct because they are mostly transfer payments that go directly to citizens-for Social Security, Medicare, public assistance, veterans' benefits, civil service and military retirement funds. Nobody wishes to deprive further the aged and infirm, the poor and the ill. Yet the total bill for these benefits is expanding faster...