Word: sacrosanctity
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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...
...Etruscan * inscription. The heart of the strategy is a $136 billion pool of popular programs like Amtrak, environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team is not going to squander political capital on such...
...same time, Harvard is beginning to realize that its traditional ability to lure the best scholars from other universities is no longer sacrosanct. Although the University made several offers this fall, many of the scholars invited to teach at Harvard have still not responded and some are considering positions elsewhere...
...life," Bell said, "Martin King recognized that the real challenge facing Black Americans was broadening the Constitution's protection to encompass the sacrosanct area of economic rights...