Word: sacrosanctity
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...unhappy about marketing forces shaping the world of medicine - a world which for most of us, at least in some part, is truly as sacrosanct as the life and health it aims to protect. Anna's case is an example of the new medical entity called "patient driven medicine." Patient driven essentially means it doesn't matter what we do or say to patients as long as they feel satisfied by their interaction with us. When the problem is complex and the best treatment mediocre, it's far more profitable to smile, cajole and refer on to the next...
...sides about how to eliminate the old borders and establish a centralized government in Sarajevo, but critics fear he means a Muslim-dominated state in which ethnic Serbs and Croats would lose their collective rights. Serb leaders insist that the entities, and hence their Serb-dominated statelet, are sacrosanct. "We will fight" attempts to dismantle the current system, Dodik told a Serbian news agency earlier this month. Speaking to Time, the Serb Republic's President, Dragan Cavic, struck a more conciliatory note. He said the idea of a referendum calling for the secession of the Serb Republic was "crazy, suicide...
...unpleasant funk. Luckily, the musical recovered from that blunder and finished with the same manic energy with which it began. “Maude and Harold” was an affront to decency, a celebration of obscenity, and an assault on the values and institutions that most people consider sacrosanct, and that’s precisely why it was so thoroughly enjoyable. Some plays slaughter sacred cows—“Maude and Harold” turned the stage into a veritable abattoir.—Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...about reincarnation,” he says. “What an awful trap that would be.” The play, along those lines, explores how today’s world might not be so inviting to return to.Durang’s other plays toy with similarly sacrosanct themes. “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which also earned him an Obie in 1985, deals with a relationship bittered by alcoholism and stillbirths. “The Vietnamization of New Jersey,” a strange parody of a satire, addresses the hypocrisy...
...networks and broadcasters claim that the FCC and the Christian Coalition—which is agitating for the passage of legislation that would increase the maximum amount of indecency fines—are mounting an assault on America’s sacrosanct First Amendment right to free speech; the FCC and the Christian Coalition accuse the networks of endangering America’s commitment to moral hygiene and public decency...