Word: sacrosanctity
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Happily, the new rules make a repeat of last year's bloody budget summit unlikely. Both parties now largely agree that despite the gulf war, defense spending should continue to decline; that domestic spending should rise only with inflation; and that mandatory entitlement programs are still too sacrosanct for deep reductions. All that's left to debate is how much should go to individual discretionary programs. Explains Robert Grady, a top Darman aide: "The amount of money spent is set, so what it comes down to is a question of priorities...
...Dining rooms are sacrosanct at Harvard," Berry says. Attempting to alter their appearance or facilities could provoke opposition from the University staff and student population, the director says...
Quelle horreur! Everyone knows the French language is sacrosanct. But that has ( not kept the government of Prime Minister Michel Rocard from trying to reform French spelling to make it easier...
...placed an added burden on U.S. Federal District Judge William Hoeveler, who is supposed to try Noriega's case in January. Earlier in the week, the judge had decried his "unfortunate and difficult task of resolving a conflict between two fundamental constitutional rights," the right to counsel vs. the "sacrosanct" First Amendment freedom of the press from prior restraint...
Berkeley's action is only one sign that the once sacrosanct institution is vulnerable these days. Last month, in a 9-to-0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that a university could not refuse to open its tenure files to ) federal investigators when challenged on the grounds of race or sex discrimination. Meanwhile, some universities and politicians are questioning the whole notion of tenure, which at some schools can mean permanent employment after as little as three years on the job. A 1987 survey by the Department of Education found that during the preceding three years...