Word: sacrosanctity
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...significant cuts ever made in Social Security benefits. The reductions would not touch the basic payments made to retired people, widows and Medicare patients. Still, a year or two ago, no President would have dared advocate even two-bit trimming of what has long been the most popular and sacrosanct of all Government programs. Carter's plans so far have provoked barely a peep of protest from Congress because the legislators know that the rapid growth of Social Security benefits has put a time bomb under the whole U.S. economy...
...locked in a furious struggle with almost the entire federal bureaucracy. The goal is to pare spending requests and put together a budget that will not exceed the $30 billion deficit that Carter has pledged. Congress is in a cutting mood, but may change its mind when specific sacrosanct programs come...
...Carpenter Center, however, does have an image as a treasure, a sacrosanct place. This confers on the building a static quality; the concrete and glass structure does not lend itself to rearrangement or partitioning. The need to set aside a small gathering place thus is clearly problematic...
...outraged, though, that the Labor government should try to use that skepticism about the plan as a bargaining counter?against French privilege. According to the French, Britain tried to trade possible support for the monetary plan in exchange for reform of the Nine's longstanding agricultural policy, which is sacrosanct to subsidized French farmers and anathema to British housewives, who believe it has raised their food prices. The French were having none of it. "We cannot link the monetary problem to the agricultural question," snapped a French foreign ministry official. But the British called it basic fair play. Countered...
...until Sept. 13 (9:30 p.m. E.D.T.), Soap is already assured of its place in television history. This ABC sitcom, a bubble-headed parody of daytime soap operas, will always be remembered as the show that broke the TV sex barrier by spilling uninhibited promiscuity into the allegedly sacrosanct hours of prime time. Other prime-time shows trade in sex, of course, but Soap is the first to flaunt its carnal knowledge directly for the viewer. Even without the enfilade fire that has preceded its arrival, this series would still be the one sure hit of the new TV season...