Word: sacrosanctity
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...Gore is certainly no appeaser of apartheid. He voted last summer for particularly harsh sanctions against South Africa. That will certainly have more effect on conditions there than Harvard hemming and hawing and "taking a stand for the values of equality and freedom that we ostensibly hold sacrosanct...
...audience share continues to decline, one or more of the networks could conceivably decide to drop anchor and have the correspondents introduce their own segments. Though that scenario is remote, there is an increasing sense at all three networks that nothing is sacrosanct about the nightly news show. Asked if he would still like to be anchoring the CBS Evening News five years from now, Rather, 55, answers quickly, "If God is good to me and with a little luck, yes." Ten years from now? Hesitation. "Gee, I don't know. It's a young person's game...
...sacrosanct is the congressional seniority system that the late Carl Hayden, an Arizona Democrat, ruled the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee into his 90s. The current chairman, Mississippi's John Stennis, is 85. The oldest House member, Claude Pepper of Florida, 86, chairs the Rules Committee. "There's something wrong with a system that keeps you from the top job until you're in your 70s," muses Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, 76. "But nobody can come up with anything better...
...that than to have the Panama legislature pass a new law aimed at -- what else? -- drug trafficking? Last week the national assembly did just that, requiring Panama's banks for the first time to provide information about the financial dealings of suspected narcotics kingpins and permitting previously sacrosanct numbered bank accounts to be frozen. The new law also speeds the extradition of foreigners suspected of drug offenses. Panama's banks, like those of Switzerland, have long been a haven for those trying to avoid taxes in their own countries. An estimated $38 billion in funds sits in Panamanian banks...
...operators were over, and he does not think the change is all to the good. "There's been a great deal of fragmentation," he says. "While a lot of it looks like democracy, to a large extent it tends to go toward confusion and chaos." Long had a few sacrosanct rules that he tried never to violate. "Aside from just being responsible and doing the job, Senators ought to keep their word to each other," he says. "If you make a commitment, you ought to keep...