Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even using the word in that way, Clinton had broken something of an Administration taboo. Rationing, the sacrificing of certain expensive or marginally useful treatments in the interests of economy, had been avidly discussed earlier in his tenure. In March Health Secretary Donna Shalala approved a Medicaid-distribution plan composed by the state of Oregon that ranked ailments and their attendant treatments from 1 to 709, according to their perceived costs and benefits. Then, based on the amount of money in its Medicaid budget, Oregon drew a line -- at number 587 -- between those it was willing to offer and those...
...instead turned out to be the insidious dictators of small nations. While in high school, we basked in the glow of corporatism; life never felt much more dire than a Saturday-afternoon detention. Then drugs stopped being cool as crack hit the scene. Casual sex became an even bigger taboo in the age of AIDS...
...quality of both groups has been so low." West also ventures into psychosexual waters, writing that "it is virtually impossible to talk candidly about race without talking about sex." He contends that "Americans are obsessed with sex and fearful of black sexuality," adding that "black sexuality is a taboo subject in America principally because it is a form of black power over which whites have no control...
...just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...support a multiyear plan to accomplish it -- is the very definition of courage in modern American politics. "He has stirred into life a debate from which the republic could have greatly benefited had it taken place a decade earlier," says the historian Arthur Schlesinger. "He has broken the taboo that has long banned the tax question from public discussion." Should he then be blamed when Republicans follow his lead and scuttle a pork-laden, deficit- increasing stimulus package whose impact on the economy would have been marginal at best? "Maybe, maybe not," says a Clinton adviser, "but the real story...