Word: sacrosanct
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...want to ensure that the people who buy it have the right to read, lend, sell, annotate, discuss or even burn their copy as they desire. This has been referred to as the right of private performance, and for a long time it was looked upon as sacrosanct...
...exclusion of all men and supposedly male values like “competition.” This exclusion, which students now observe in an entire Perspective issue devoted to one gender, has consequences: Men are emasculated and expressions of their masculinity—including criticism of sacrosanct television shows like “Sex and the City” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”—become politically incorrect...
...Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their deficit spending below 3% of GDP in order to stave off inflation. But what's a sacrosanct international agreement when the national interest comes calling? France and Germany suffer from close-to-zero growth and close-to-double-digit unemployment rates. So why not spend their way out of the slump, never mind yesterday's vows? With about a 4% deficit, Germany, in 2004, will be above the limit...
...storyline that fans hold sacrosanct. Writer Robert Skir's decision to create a darker, organic Cybertron for the 1999 CGI television series _Beast Machines: Transformers_ won him few popularity points with the fandom. Skir's actions earned him numerous death threats, and incited more hate than a thousand Bin Laden speeches. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest incarnation of the series has abandoned any pretense of a maturity and delivers bland, insipid episodes aimed at pre-schoolers who like their primary colors with a dash of Energon...
...there always money for war and there’s never money for the human condition?” Lewis demanded, slamming his fist on the podium. “Why is war sacrosanct and African lives are expendable...