Word: sacrosanctity
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Money follows power. Community Development Block Grants began as a housing program for inner cities. Now half the $3.5 billion allocated for the program this year will go outside center cities. The politically sacrosanct tax deduction for mortgage interest costs the federal Treasury $50 billion each year, a benefit that flows mostly to the purchasers of suburban homes. At the same time, federal aid to cities declined from $47.2 billion in 1980 to $21.7 billion 10 years later...
Vendler also says that scholars who come from other schools bring in fresh ideas and new ways of doing things. "If you've only taught at one place, then you tend to think the ideas and rules of that institution are sacrosanct," she says...
Arthur S. Lipkin '68, a gay activist who teaches at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and works with Cambridge's Lavender Alliance gay and lesbian coalition, says he finds "troubling" Noble's avoidance of CCA affiliation, "because I find the CCA a fairly progressive, [although] not sacrosanct, organization...
...proposing a voucher system that would subsidize the tuition of children who choose parochial schools, the Bush Administration is confronting one of the nation's sacrosanct principles: the First Amendment's stricture against "establishment of religion" creates a wall between church and state. That hurdle, while high, may not be impossible to surmount. Over the years the Supreme Court has wrestled with the distinction between direct funding of religious institutions, which is forbidden, and indirect aid that is designed to serve a secular purpose, which may be permissible...
Jordan showed that he is much more. In the final minutes of last week's final game, it was Michael's sharp assists to guard John Paxson, not his 30 spectacular points, that won the day and the series. Jordan's passing violates two sacrosanct rules: don't go up in the air unless you know what you're going to do there, and don't throw the ball crosscourt. Jordan invariably found the open man because he has a map of the court and all its players inside his head (he majored in geography at North Carolina). He knows...