Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...payrolls. More than a third of those huge companies are still dripping with red ink. So far, the government has been unwilling to enforce a five-year-old bankruptcy law that would require the firms to cut featherbedded staffs and losses. Privatization remains the government's great and enduring taboo. Says Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning conservative economist, who completed a trip through China last month: "The answer to the question of how to go about getting a free- market system is very straightforward. You get the government out of the way and privatize, privatize, privatize. The Chinese have...
...start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology, and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists...
...most police organizations, the breaking of ranks is taboo. At Harvard, it used to be that way. But the year 1993 has changed things to the point that internal grievances may be broadcast to 200,000 boat racing fans...
...that the Spanish are a proud and passionate people; Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna hardly strives to dispel the stereotype. After a spot of flogging and rape foreplay, loopy Lope really gets the juices flowing with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...
Intermarriage should not be looked upon as a taboo; it is the natural product of interaction between societies. On the fringes of any bordering religious or racial groups, intermarriage always occurs regardless of any doctrinal prohibitions. Despite the derogatory light in which such action is cast by some societies, intermarriage can have extremely beneficial effects...