Word: sacrosanctity
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...were able to get most of their financing through retained profits, bond issues or bank loans, which were fairly cheap and easy to obtain. Executives were reluctant to float stock because it would dilute their earnings per share. "And in those days," says Stein, "earnings per share were a sacrosanct criterion of executive skill...
Speaking to constituents in his Midlands district of Wolverhampton, Powell last week charged that the sacrosanct Civil Service had "cruelly and persistently misled" the public as to the size of the immigrant problem. In a tactic reminiscent of the late Senator McCarthy, Powell said, "One begins to wonder if the Foreign Office is the only department of state into which enemies of this country have infiltrated...
This week, when Volpe presents the Highway Act of 1970 to the House Public Works Committee, he plans to go even farther. He proposes to open the hitherto untouchable-indeed, almost sacrosanct-Federal Highway Trust Fund to purposes other than building roads. By so doing, Volpe will antagonize the highway lobby, a powerful amalgam of contractors, oilmen, billboard companies, automakers and others. The fight of his political life appears imminent...
...less than aspirin and the facts of sexual intercourse. An educational version of it was, in fact, invented for our "benefit." The world was made disproportionately small by our teachers and our textbooks, its inequities ignored, its differing cultures approximated, its messages equivocated, its complexity reduced to a sacrosanct canon of saccharine passages and colored pictures. It was a world from which textbook writers had effectively exorcised all inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles...
...until last fall, when Laotian government troops surprised themselves and most observers by pushing the North Vietnamese and their Pathet Lao allies off the strategic Plain of Jars. Last month the Communists struck back, and what worries many U.S. officials is that they might go on to attack hitherto sacrosanct Laotian government positions south and west of the Plain...