Word: sacrosanctity
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Reagan has boxed himself in by opposing tax hikes, declaring the military-spending increases sacrosanct and postponing the much needed reform of the Social Security system. Consequently, he seems resigned simply to living with the resulting large deficits. During his campaign Reagan had pledged that his program "will give us a balanced budget by 1983," and as recently as Sept. 24 he repeated his goal of a balanced 1984 budget. But at his press conference last week he said, "I think it is highly unlikely that the budget could now, in these new circumstances, be balanced by 1984." He added...
...Monde observed: "The American arguments would have carried more weight if the U.S. had adopted a more responsible attitude on energy pricing; if several years ago they had developed the means to export their abundant coal reserves; and if, finally, Mr. Reagan had not in the name of the sacrosanct laws of the market, compromised the financing of synthetic fuels on the grounds of profit...
...future is now being threatened by new strikes over an eleven-minute reduction in that most sacrosanct of British workers' institutions: the tea break. The unions had earlier agreed to reduce daily tea and rest breaks from 51 minutes to 40 minutes in exchange for a cutback in the work week from 40 hours to 39 hours. But 2,200 workers, angry over their defeat on wages, decided to walk out. The strike halted production of 1,200 cars...
...shuddering, sobbing hulk of a man who cannot remember the first lines of a play he has performed 426 times. Sir's wife (Rachel Gurney) and his longtime stage manager (Marge Redmond) are all for canceling the performance, but Norman adamantly invokes the theater's sacrosanct commandment without actually uttering it-the show must go on. Norman pleads with Sir, he prods, he cajoles, he utters the hypnotizing words ("a full house"), catapulting the fragile tyrant out of a trance and onto the stage...
Last week, however, the formerly sacrosanct farm subsidies came under a surprising assault in the Senate. Rejecting the increases proposed by its agriculture committee, the chamber trimmed milk price supports, once the most sacred of cows. Protection for peanut planters was also reduced...