Word: sacrosanctity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Congress has been asked to investigate the investigation of the investigation, it is likely that little will come of it. The FBI's domain remains fairly sacrosanct, and Congressional scrutiny will not change the attitude of those who initiated the librarian surveillance...
...creations" of real-life events are suddenly everywhere. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair, Fox's America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...
...notion. Japanese managers are ironhanded disciplinarians who believe that great players are made, not born, and they try to reshape the foreign players into the Japanese mold. The Americans, intense individualists that they are, rebel. The Japanese conclude that the Americans are rude, lazy, and worse, lacking in the sacrosanct wa, the sense of team spirit that obliges the Japanese to subordinate everything else in life to the interest of the team...
Even one of the most sacrosanct areas of jurisprudence, contract law, is under attack. Feminists charge that the law tends to uphold agreements concerning the things men produce but ignores the contributions women make. Says Professor Mary Becker of the University of Chicago Law School: "Courts have traditionally refused to enforce bargains between spouses in which one partner agrees to pay the other for women's work -- child rearing, caretaking and other domestic responsibilities...
When a reporter called Board of Overseers member Frances Fitzgerald '62 to confirm the governing board's choice of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 as this year's Commencement speaker, Fitzgerald said with surprise, "I thought that was supposed to be sacrosanct...