Word: sacrosanctity
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ONLY IN THE LAST few decades has the previously sacrosanct relationship between the doctor and his patient become frayed. Many have speculated on a network of sources for the new conflict. Certainly recent technical developments in diagnosis and treatment have prevented the human contact that had been the trademark of the pre-twentieth century doctor-patient relationship. Increased emphasis upon the contractual aspect of the alliance between the professional and his lay client, and the consequent reduction of time spent between the two parties have enervated that once sacred affinity. Some have additionally, if not alternately, suggested that media advertising...
...consulting firm; not up to the snuff required by Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade, who has often declined to comment publicly on Department decisions; and not up to the snuff required by Richard A. Musgrave, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, who believes academic decisions are sacrosanct and should not be subject to the democratic processes of student review...
DEFENSE. In the face of McGovern's attack on Nixon's defense budget, the President's Pentagon outlays have become almost sacrosanct. Despite the presumably imminent end of the Viet Nam War and the SALT I agreements on limiting new nuclear weapons, the defense budget will rise rather than decline. It will reach at least $76.5 billion in fiscal 1973, an increase of $1.3 billion in expenditures over last year...
...nothing more than the lawyer version of the standard doctor series. Although the jargon is different, a number of viewers might not even notice if Owen Marshall and Marcus Welby changed places for a week. The lawyers are all grimly competent-the legal and medical professions are nearly sacrosanct to TV writers-and Owen's clients are almost always innocent. The producers of the series, unfortunately...
...officials to sabotage the Muskie candidacy in New Hampshire by forging letters and subverting campaign schedules. The Muskie incidents and the Watergate affair, which newspapers each day link more clearly to the President and his closest advisors, are reminders that for Richard Nixon, even the electoral process is not sacrosanct...