Word: solemnization
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...watchword of some of the President's political advisers, such as George Stephanopoulos and outgoing congressional liaison Howard Paster. Programs like Social Security and Medicare have been portrayed for decades as something that American workers had earned; trimming benefits for the affluent would be viewed as breaking a solemn social contract. (In truth, a recent Social Security beneficiary gets back what he paid with interest by age 71; anything after that is free). The Clinton political team believes the most serious problem is not Social Security but the runaway costs of Medicare and Medicaid. As outside political adviser Paul Begala...
...personifies Detroit's new culture more engagingly than GM's Jack Smith, who has dispensed with nearly all the trappings of solemn power collected by his predecessors, including the dining room. He has even dropped the chairman's Christmas speech, once beamed to GM's faithful around the world. A senior executive says one reason may be the unforgettable scene in the cruelly funny film Roger and Me of Roger Smith reading from Dickens' A Christmas Carol while autoworkers were being evicted from their homes in Flint, Michigan...
...usual with discussions of the deficit, the exact way that this financial Apocalypse will come to pass was skipped over. Instead, the wonderful new term "intergenerational morality" was used, in solemn tones, to describe the moral crime implicit in deficit spending...
...Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish with the morning mist, but it plants in the minds of millions of people a solemn promise, making it harder for leaders to go on defying logic and decency...
...camp in Poland, where more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April...