Word: sacrosanctity
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Ever since it was started in 1956, the Highway Trust Fund has been as sacrosanct as motherhood. Its purpose was to build interstate highways, and the money rolls in, mainly from a 40 tax levied on every gallon of gasoline sold in the U.S.-all of it to be spent on highways. But even the most enthusiastic motorist has begun to realize that most cities cannot stand any more new highways pouring cars into their already congested streets. This year the Senate decided that the priorities need some reordering. In its version of the Federal Aid Highway...
...argument that an Administration needs a great deal of privacy to conduct its business properly, he says yes, "but not to pursue a course in private that is counter to public pronouncements." Some secrets remain sacrosanct to him. He would not print information about weapons technology, for instance, or deployment of forces in time of war. Once, he says, he withheld material at the specific request of CIA Director Richard Helms...
Weight Watchers is now offering some other inducements. At a splashy Manhattan press reception last month, Mrs. Nidetch announced that the company would now allow in its formerly sacrosanct diet such once "illegal" items as spaghetti, macaroni, potatoes, rice and mayonnaise. The company's nutritional consultants explained that such foods eaten in small portions do not defeat a weight-reduction program-indeed, they enhance It by alleviating the boredom that often makes dieters give up. Mrs. Nidetch last week turned up on the Merv Griffin TV show to promote the new diet and plug the latest addition...
...Israelis and Jews elsewhere have so passionately agitated is beginning to pose serious problems for Israel. Taking care of the immigrants has put an almost impossible burden on Israel's already strained economic resources. This year the government has allotted $650 million to provide for newcomers; even the sacrosanct defense budget had to be slashed to help find the money. U.S. bond holders, Israel's biggest outside benefactors, have been asked for a record $450 million this year. Last week both Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir were in the U.S. to do some fundraising...
Kistiakowsky. The proposals of these, I might call them "hot-rod military" types, are no sacrosanct anymore. They are challenged, and the ABM debate was the first of these public debates...